# Report Save as PNG Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 21, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469 "2011-10-21T09:10:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aidamcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@aidamcg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aidamcg)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469/1 "2011-10-21T09:10:21Z")

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Hi

Whenever I save a report as PNG with more than 1 page in it the first page is what gets saved no matter which page I am viewing. Is it possible to save the other pages in the report? or am I missing something simple

Thanks

Aidan  
Version 7.2.7

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469/2 "2011-10-25T18:51:04Z")

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You’re right - PNG export only uses the first page since PNG isn’t a multi-page format. I suppose we could concatenate each page into a very tall image, but I’m not sure who would want a report in such a format.

Is there a reason you don’t want to use PDF?

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**Author:** ![aidamcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@aidamcg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aidamcg)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469/3 "2011-10-26T06:44:54Z")

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Hi Carl

I intend to send it as an Email and it is quite large as a PDF so it takes a long time for it to send. That was the main reason for trying to save it as a PNG. I tried saving it as HTML but the information in graphs does not get saved.

Thanks

Aidan

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469/4 "2011-10-26T20:50:10Z")

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The PNG would probably be a larger file than the PDF, but I can put a ticket in to get this fixed.

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**Author:** ![nathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nathan)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-save-as-png-issue/3469/5 "2011-10-26T21:36:41Z")

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@carl - might be worth looking at pdf size options. Sometimes pdf files can be compressed or saved in a way that they visually look about the same at a much smaller size. I’m not sure if this has been considered with the pdf export in the reporting module.