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Power BI Service in both reading mode and edit mode, when attempting "Export to PDF", the resulting PDF is based solely on the canvas size. The PDF is coming out at 1" of paper dimension for 48 pixels of canvas dimension. This makes a 16:9 canvas at default 1280x720 come out as a 26.7"x15.2" pdf. (Which is bad... it looks unprofessional and puts burden on end users to make adjustments that they shouldn't have to or on me to reprint the PDF to standard letter size.)
Note: before someone tells me to use the default canvas size... I created a new dataset consisting of 2 short strings of text. I then selected "blank canvas" and added a table to which I added my one column. I changed no other settings (meaning I was on the default 16:9 canvas). I then saved and tried "export to pdf" using both reading mode and edit mode. In both modes, the error occured. (I also tried using letter and several custom sizes to confirm it was consistently 48 px +/- a fraction. I also tried with a few other visualizations so it's not that either.)
Note: I replicated this in both Chrome and Edge (and in Edge I was defaulted to the MS "Print to PDF" printer option).
Past threads have said that others have been able to get standard size PDFs at better pixels-per-inch so I presume that something has broken and the PDFs are either not scaling as they should or the pixels-per-inch has broken.
For example: the default pixels for a "letter" size canvas are 816x1056 which is 8.5"x11" at 96 pixels-per-inch (ie double the 48 that I'm getting).
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