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Status Implemented
Product Spotfire
Categories Export
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 9, 2016

PDF export issues with Spotfire

1) Spotfire pdf export can only print one page per visual as they need to select this option in order to allow export of "Trellis panels and table rows not visible on screen". This increases the PDF print out 4-5 times. We have also explored altering this functionality with scripting  and leveraging the API, however still this functionality is not possible.

Can we enable to print more than one visuals  per page by enabling the selection of "Trellis panels and table rows not visible on screen" for "All pages" not only "All pages (new page for each visualization)".

 2) When column width is smaller than the text field in the column, the text it is cut off on screen in Spotfire and then also in the pdf export. It is exported as an image and it does not even fill the whole length of the page. 

 3) The title in tables cannot be colored so the report looks more groomed or polished. 

 4) The PDF headers and footers are too limited in Spotfire. 4a) When we try to leverage scripting we can only see option to print footer and NOT header. 4b) The header and footer are too limited on their display and cannot be refined so more visually appealing. Only regular font and no coloring available.

 5) When looking to create plots specific to clinical trial lab graphs, displaying the x and y-axis so that it is on the same scale for all patients  when displaying only one subject at a time. Specifically, we need the axes min and max to be defined by the min and max values of the study. Examples: For the y-axis it would be the min and max numerical values in standard units for each lab test and for the x-axis it would be have the minimum and maximum dates labs were collected.

6) We'd like to be able to sort fields in columns upon export

Implemented in 7.12
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Mar 14, 2018

    Spotfire 7.12 adds significant improvements to Export to PDF. Since this Idea contains several separate Ideas, please feel free to report new Ideas for any that you do not feel are resolved and are important.

    Read more about the new Export to PDF in Spotfire 7.12 at: https://community.tibco.com/wiki/whats-new-tibco-spotfire

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  • Guest
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    Jan 19, 2017

    MIA Solutions has the tool called "MIA Template Exporter" that allows extended exporting (ppt, html, pdf) - via creating own document templates enriched with charts/tables/properties/etc. from Spotfire + a lot of functionality in addition for automation services - like "report bursting".

    In next release of the exporting plugin we will support increasing/decreasing fontsizes in the charts.

    For more info - please contact me via michal.jakubik@miasolutions.sk

    Attached the flyer.