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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Problem printing report with visual in focus mode

HI all,

 

I've spotted a problem when a user of one of my reports tried to print it off from PBI services whilst having one graph in focus mode.

What happened was it printed the visual that was in focus mode, it was as large as the page as expected. However it also printed the normal page in the background. It's like it printed the non-focused page and then went back and printed the focused visual on top of that.

Needless to say he wasn't too happy, aha.

 

Has anyone experienced this before? I suggested exporting to PowerPoint and then printing from there although I've had problems with formatting changing upon export to PP. Does anyone have a better suggestion?

 

Thanks,


Will

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  • v-sihou-msft's avatar
    v-sihou-msft
    8 years ago

    Anonymous

     

    Please try to "Edit report", change the View into "Actual Size" and save it.

     

     

    Then it should fill with entire page size in print preview. You may also change the Layout into "landscape".

     

     

    Regards,

     

     

9 Replies

  • Kward's avatar
    Kward
    Frequent Visitor
    8 years ago
    If you go to your browsers page setup you need to select "Print Background Colors and Images". Not sure why this works, but it will let you print only the table/visual in focus mode and not overlay on the entire report.
    • HenrikH29's avatar
      HenrikH29
      Advocate I
      8 years ago

      You are absolutely right. It works. Thanks!

       

      BTW i use Chrome Browser.

    • roselilly23's avatar
      roselilly23
      Advocate V
      8 years ago

      Hey, how do I "Print Background Colours and Images" in IE?

       

      Thanks

      Rose

  • v-sihou-msft's avatar
    v-sihou-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Anonymous

     

    Please try to "Edit report", change the View into "Actual Size" and save it.

     

     

    Then it should fill with entire page size in print preview. You may also change the Layout into "landscape".

     

     

    Regards,

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago

      Hi

       

      This didn't solve the problem. It still printed with the large focus mode chart over the top of the smaller ones.

       

      Thanks

       

      Martin

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    I'm getting the same issue and the suggested fix doesn't work.

     

    If I press Crtl-A while in print preview I can see the background page which is messing things up (see attached pic - I just want the table in top corner, but all the stuff in light blue I think is getting in the way)