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PDF Exporter for ConfluenceRelease Notes
13 October 2026
Background exports
- Large exports are generated on Atlassian's servers in the background, so you can close the page while they run
- Where to generate: Auto (recommended), This browser, or Server (background)
- My exports keeps your finished background exports for 7 days; admins set retention and a storage limit under Exports & storage
Scheduled exports
- Export a space or a page tree every week or every month
- Each run attaches a dated PDF or ZIP to an archive page, or keeps it in My exports
- Notify by email: the app @mentions chosen people on the archive page, and Confluence emails them
- Each schedule keeps one comment thread on its archive page and adds every run's result as a reply, so the page doesn't fill up with comments
- Run now, pause and resume; failed runs show the reason, and schedules pause after three failures in a row
- Admins see every schedule on the site
One export at a time
- Server exports run one at a time per site; others wait in line, showing their place and a Cancel button
- Clicking Export shows Preparing Export straight away while the app checks the pages and your access, and the button can't be clicked twice
- Each site can render 10,000 pages a month on the server; browser exports don't count, and admins see this month's usage in settings
- Sites on an older version see a notice that an update needs new permissions, with a link to Manage apps for admins
REST API
- Start exports from scripts and CI/CD pipelines with an API token
- Export a page, page tree or space; attach the file to a page and notify people
- Safe retries with
requestId, rate limits, and a log of recent calls per token - Responses are fixed messages and no data leaves Atlassian, so the app stays eligible for Runs on Atlassian
Navigation
- The exporter and the settings page use a sidebar, and remember the open section in the page address
Fixes
- Custom emoji keep their image when there's no standard emoji for them
- Table of contents zone macros are no longer left out
- Panels keep their background colour
- Decision items keep their formatting
- Long code lines without spaces wrap instead of running off the page
- Embeds without a source show a named "not included" note
- Focused text fields show a primary-colour border instead of a black outline
- The exporter no longer opens at a small height on first load
4 October 2026
Drag-and-drop cover designer
- The Custom cover is now designed on the page itself: drag the title, subtitle, author, date, logo, text, images and lines onto the cover and place them anywhere
- Move elements by dragging, change their width with the side handles, and nudge them with the arrow keys
- Snap guides line elements up with the page centre and with each other
- Style the selected element (size, colour, alignment, bold) and set its exact position
- Undo and redo, plus Discard changes and Reset to default
- Choosing the Custom tile opens the designer straight away; an Edit design tile next to it reopens it
- Covers built with the earlier block builder are converted automatically
Images on the cover
- Upload up to four images per cover, or drop image files straight onto the page
- Images are shrunk in the browser before saving, so templates and exports stay light
Usage statistics
- A new Usage tab on the admin page charts exports and pages per day over 30 days, 90 days or 12 months
- See which outputs people choose (single PDF, merged PDF, ZIP) and where exports start
- Only counts are kept — no user or page names
Templates screen
- Templates are shown as tiles with a thumbnail of each template's opening page
Fixes
- An empty page — for example an empty parent page — now exports as a PDF instead of an empty ZIP
- A page that fails to load is retried, then reported by name instead of being left out silently
- An export never downloads an empty archive
3 October 2026
Templates
- Styling controls in every template section: headings, body text, links, tables and code blocks
- Custom cover design and a full-page cover background image
- Variable autocomplete in template text fields — type
{to insert{title},{date},{year}or{lastEditedBy} - Variables on the cover page (subtitle and author)
- Header and footer can be shown on the table of contents page
- New
{lastEditedBy}variable
Export
- One merged PDF: export a page tree as a single document with one table of contents and continuous page numbers
- Links between exported pages jump to the right place inside a merged PDF
- Same-page heading links resolve correctly
- Code blocks are syntax highlighted, with a title or language label
- Tables keep rows that are taller than a page and use Confluence column widths
- Images keep their authored or natural size
- Task lists render as checkboxes, emoticons print as emoji, and embeds leave a linked note instead of vanishing
28 August 2026
- Export a single page from the Export to PDF link under the page title, with a live preview of the PDF
- Header and footer images
- Coloured text keeps its colour in the PDF
June 2026
- Non-Latin scripts print correctly: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indic scripts and right-to-left languages
April 2026
- Initial release on the Atlassian Marketplace
- Export single pages, page trees or whole spaces to PDF
- Reusable templates with cover pages, headers, footers, watermarks and a table of contents
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