# Saving table to PDF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/saving-table-to-pdf/6969 "2013-08-01T19:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@maz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/maz)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/saving-table-to-pdf/6969/1 "2013-08-01T19:08:17Z")
Hi all, I’m trying to find a way to save the contents of a table to a PDF. I know you can print the table, and use a PDF printer to save the output, but I’m hoping to find something I can put behind a simple button and not have the end user see any of that. Is there a way to do that? ---
**Author:** ![Ron.Lor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f17d59/32.png) [@Ron.Lor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ron.Lor)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/saving-table-to-pdf/6969/2 "2013-08-02T00:00:51Z")
the only way to do that would be through the report module. ---
**Author:** ![maz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@maz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/maz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/saving-table-to-pdf/6969/3 "2013-08-02T16:41:12Z")
Yup, that’s exactly what I found. I hid a report object on the screen and bound its dataset to the table’s dataset and put the columns I needed in a table on the report. My ‘save to pdf’ button saves the report of the current table dataset. ---
**Author:** ![arronlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@arronlee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/arronlee)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/saving-table-to-pdf/6969/4 "2013-08-20T08:58:03Z")
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**Author:** ![peterlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@peterlee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peterlee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/saving-table-to-pdf/6969/5 "2015-06-10T12:32:45Z")
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