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Export to PDF

Export a bluprnts report as a PDF through your browser's print dialogue — and what the watermark on some plans means for a document you're sending out.

Export in the report toolbar prints the document, which is how you save it as a PDF. The app chrome — toolbar, brief panel, section controls — is never printed; only the document itself is.

Export a report#

  1. Open the report.
  2. Select Export in the toolbar.
  3. In your browser's print dialogue, choose Save as PDF as the destination.
  4. Save.

The file is named after the report's title, so name the report before exporting rather than renaming the file afterwards.

Freeze it first, if you're sending it#

Exporting takes a snapshot of a living document. If the plan changes next week, your PDF still says what it said — but the report in your account will have moved on, and the two will disagree.

Freeze the report before exporting and both stay in step: the frozen document keeps every figure as presented on the day, and the library marks it As presented. See What a report is.

The watermark#

Plans without clean export print a bluprnts watermark on every page — "Made with bluprnts.ai", stamped several times per page so no section prints unmarked, plus a credit line in the footer.

The Export button says which you have before you print: "Print / save as PDF", or "Print / save as PDF — carries a bluprnts watermark on your plan". Upgrading removes it. See Plans.

Getting a good-looking PDF#

  • Save as PDF, don't print to paper and scan. The document is laid out for it.
  • Leave your browser's headers and footers switched off in the print dialogue — otherwise the page URL and date print over a document you designed.
  • Use default margins. The document sets its own.
  • Check the page breaks in the preview before saving; a long statement table can land awkwardly, and reordering or removing a section is the fix.