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PDF export in desktop app doesn't work correctly for select page range

Open OPSeqT opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

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Describe the bug When using the desktop app to export multi-page drawings to pdf and selecting more than two pages to export, then you get additional copies of pages added to the end of the pdf file. This also means internal hyperlinks in the exported pdf (as added in https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/722) do not work. If you select "All Pages" in the export dialog box then it works fine, and if the total number of pages exported via the "Pages x to x" range is 1 or 2 then it works.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a drawing with at least 3 pages
  2. Click File >> Export as >> PDF
  3. Select "Pages 1 to 3" and Export
  4. The saved pdf has 4 pages (including a duplicate of page 2 at the end)

Expected behavior I would expect the exported pdf to have the correct pages and for internal hyperlinks to work, I would expect the desktop app to behave in the same way as the online app.

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draw.io version (In the Help->About menu of the draw.io editor):

  • draw.io version 27.0.9

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Windows 11
  • Browser: Chrome
  • Browser Version: 136.0.7103.114

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

  • Device: [e.g. iPhone6]
  • OS: [e.g. iOS8.1]
  • Browser [e.g. stock browser, safari]
  • Version [e.g. 22]

I tested the problem in incognito/private mode with all browser extensions switched off, write "yes" below:

  • n/a

Additional context The pdf files attached below are exported from the drawio file in the zip file, one from the desktop app and onde from the online app. This adds to the issues around pdf export that have already been reported under https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/4851

pdf export test.drawio (online).pdf pdf export test.drawio (desktop).pdf

pdf export test.zip

OPSeqT avatar Jun 05 '25 14:06 OPSeqT

@davidjgraph This issue is still present in the latest version of drawio desktop that I was prompted to install this morning (v28.0.6). Please could you clarify if it is supposed to be fixed in this version or not, and if not, when the fix will be released. Thank you.

OPSeqT avatar Aug 06 '25 07:08 OPSeqT