Exporting a Story as a PDF or a PPTX

You can export a story as a PDF file or as a Microsoft PowerPoint (PPTX) file.

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Note

Your exported content won't be an exact match to your story pages:

The PDF or PowerPoint file shows exactly what appears on your story pages at the moment that you export them. If any charts or tables in your story are scrollable, only the visible parts are included in the exported file.
The visible content of the story pages in the application determines the size of the exported content: for PDF, the pages will be scaled up; for PowerPoint the content will be scaled down.

If you want to print the PDF file to paper, you may need to use scaling options in your PDF viewing software.

Note

For an R visualization widget, a static plot will be exported. But if the R widget is written in RHTML (iFrame), it won't be exported.

With a story open, in the toolbar select Export.
In the dialog's File Type list, choose either PDF or PowerPoint (.pptx).
Choose which pages you'd like to export. You can export all, or a range of pages.
(Optional) Select Enable export in the background if you want to continue working while the file is being processed and saved. You may experience a slower response time until the export is complete.

Note

We don’t recommend to enable the export in the background for HTML R Visualization widgets as in this case the exported PDF may not work as expected.
(Optional) Select Insert Appendix to include an appendix containing the story's filter settings and variables set for the story.
(Optional) If you've applied scaling to any charts, you can select Apply Scaled Measures Across All Included Pages to scale the charts across pages.
When charts are scaled per page, the chart density is automatically determined using all charts from the same page only. When charts are scaled across pages, the chart density is determined by all charts that are being exported.
Select Export to create and download the file to your computer.

Your story is exported.