Re: Pin the Tail on the Confluence PDF Image Bug

[Sharon Metzger <sharon -dot- metzger -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I don't have much experience with images in tables, but I strongly
recommend the Scroll PDF Exporter plugin for Confluence if you must deliver
PDF from Confluence. https://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-pdf-exporter Saved
my sanity (until I finally got away from delivering PDF).

There are still oddities in tables, but much more manageable than
Confluence native PDF.

Sharon

sharon -dot- metzger -at- gmail -dot- com

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Ryan <kryan -at- harriscomputer -dot- com> wrote:

> Resubmitting this message in text format  â Is that what "content type not
> explicitly permitted" error calls for?  If not, please clarify. Thank you.
> ************************************************************
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>
> Hi and Happy New Year,
>
> My company is migrating our documentation from FrameMaker/PDF to
> Confluence 6.1.3.  Iâm relatively new to Confluence (about 6 months) and
> just tested the âexport to PDFâ function to find that a bug exists where
> random law-abiding images that appear ok  in Confluence pages and in
> Confluence-to-Word exports can be missing from âexport to PDFâ output.  For
> example, I have a 30-row Confluence table that coordinates descriptions for
> our softwareâs function keys and GUI icons.   The Confluence page has about
> 40 icon images living ostensibly happily in table cells, sometimes more
> than one icon per cell.  When I export to PDF, only 8 of these images
> actually display in the PDF with the remainder having been somehow
> vaporized into white space.
>
> I have the Confluence Source Editor so I can compare the code, but so far
> Iâve not been able to find an obvious code difference between the code for
> AWOL and non-AWOL pdf images  (which is not to say there isnât a
> difference).  I understand from Confluence issue posts that there is some
> issue with centering of images and Confluence not feeling obligated to
> PDF-render images formatted or aligned in ways that would be reasonable to
> expect from any other program.
>
> Iâm muddling my way through correcting this file by a series of
> non-intuitive realignments and re-realignments along with image resizing
> followed by  restoring my original image size.   Does anyone have a
> simplistic rule of thumb to avoid this PDF image bug that I suspect may
> fall into the âAtlassian will never fix itâ category?  Itâs a major
> nuisance to deal with this nonsense.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Kevin Ryan
>
> PS. Here is an example of the code for two adjacent Confluence images, the
> first rendered ok in the PDF, the second one ignored.
>
> IMAGE DISPLAYS IN PDF:
>     <tr>
>       <td>
>         <p> </p>
>       </td>
>       <td align="center" style="text-align: center;">
>         <div class="content-wrapper">
>           <p> <ac:image ac:thumbnail="true" ac:width="37">
>               <ri:attachment ri:filename="ico_Inq_Device_Info.png"/>
>             </ac:image>
>           </p>
>         </div>
>       </td>
>       <td>
>         <p> </p>
>       </td>
>       <td valign="top">
>         <p>From Inquiry: Device Information</p>
>       </td>
>     </tr>
>
>
> IMAGE DOES NOT DISPLAY IN PDF:
>     <tr>
>       <td>
>         <p> </p>
>       </td>
>       <td align="center" style="text-align: center;">
>         <div class="content-wrapper">
>           <p> <ac:image ac:height="25" ac:thumbnail="true">
>               <ri:attachment ri:filename="ico_PROCESS_ASSIST_V6.png"/>
>             </ac:image>
>           </p>
>         </div>
>       </td>
>       <td>
>         <p>
>           <br/>
>         </p>
>       </td>
>       <td valign="top">
>         <p>From Inquiry: Process Assistance</p>
>       </td>
>     </tr>
>
>
>
>
>
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