PDF Stylesheet not affecting header size

[Nick Reilingh]

The default PDF export for confluence 5.7 outputs 8-point text – I want to scale this up to a more standard 12-point so it looks like any other word processor document.

The first thing I tried was to add a rule paragraph tag, setting font-size to 12pt, and this worked great. But when I tried to make similar modifications to h1-h6 (starting from the defaultpdf.css file), no change is observed in the resulting PDF. I notice that the header styles are defined in px, where the paragraph style is define in pt.

Is there something I'm not getting? How do I troubleshoot this?

EDIT:

What I'm actually trying here is to edit the "PDF Stylesheet" for a space by including the following in the space's look and feel configuration:

body,p,li,td,table,tr,.bodytext,.stepfield  
{  
	font-size: 12pt;  
}  
h1  
{  
    font-size: 26pt;  
}  
h2  
{  
    font-size: 20pt;  
}  
h3 etc...

I started with the default CSS file on the page linked above for a reference, and then just increased the sizes  by a few points – and in the case of headers, changed the units from px to pt which should also make them larger.

But only the font-size property for body/p/li, etc is taking effect. The header properties are unchanged, AND seem to be different from the supposedly default values to begin with!

[Steffen Heller · Accepted solution]

You could try to add ".wiki-content" to increase your selectors specifity:

.wiki-content h1 {
 font-size: 26pt; 
}

That seems to works in my own PDF stylesheet. No guarantee though, just an attempt.

[Nick Reilingh]

Hey, that did it! I guess I should just be looking at the regular page display in-browser to see what rules will be overridden. It looks like there are some h2 rules on the page but none of them take effect because of the .wiki-content rules. Perhaps the documentation on this hasn't been updated for the new default theme yet.

[Laura Schneider]

See my discussion https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/PDF-Export-Confluence-does-not-support-CSS-3-only-2-1/td-p/1202508

[Steffen Heller]

Hi Nick,

it is hard to tell why your modifications don't work without knowing what they are. Can you post what code you entered and where?

[Nick Reilingh]

I expanded the question -- thank you.