Incorrect Page Orientation Exporting to PDF with Tabloid or Ledger Pagesize

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Incorrect Page Orientation Exporting to PDF with Tabloid or Ledger Pagesize

Published: 07 Feb 2019
Last Modified Date: 11 Feb 2019

Issue

When exporting to PDF under the following conditions, the page orientation may not appear as expected:

Ledger page size and landscape layout
Tabloid page size and portrait layout

Environment

Tableau Desktop
Tableau Online
Tableau Server
Exporting to PDF through the product UI or tabcmd

Resolution

For 11 x 17 (portrait) layout, choose ledger page size and default layout.
For 17 x 11 (landscape) layout, choose tabloid page size and default layout.

Cause

Tableau offers two sizing options with the same 11 x 17 paper size, but different default orientations: ledger (portrait) and tabloid (landscape). We treat the default size as portrait layout size. So for ledger-portrait you see a layout of 17 x 11 (scaled appropriately), and for ledger-landscape, we transpose these, meaning you will see 11 x 17 layout.