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Report Server Print Current Page as PDF

When I first started using Power BI Report Server last year (Sept 2021 version), I was able to scale a report page so that when Print Current Page was selected, the report page could be automatically scaled to fit on a letter or 11x17 page size when printed as a PDF. I was requested to provide this functionality so that one-page shots from the report could be included as PDFs when sending out update notifications to report consumers. This allowed them to see a quicl snapshot of the data without having to open the report.

 

Recently, possibly when my project switched to using Edge as it's browser (previously I beleive we used Chrome), the functionality that made this possible has changed. Now when users select the option, the image that prints as a PDF only occupies about two thirds of the available space in a letter and the rest is just gray. 

 

There does not seem to be any way to adjust for this in Power BI either in the Report Server settings or in the Desktop settings. Is known there a reason why this would suddeny change. Is it a compatibility issue with Edge, I can't find any information that addresses what is happening and am at a loss as to what could be done to fix it. It seems fairly inconguent that this option is provided as part of report server but does not work intuitively for end content consumers. My project is restricted to using Report Server and the fact that the functionality does not work from the standard of a reasonable expectation by the end-user is very frustrating and tarnishes their view of and desire to use the product. 
I'm oping that someone else has experienced this situation and can provide any advice. Thanks in advance.

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Philophobic
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Facing the same issue. Not sure if it's an Edge issue.

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