# Canvas share to pdf only creates pdf with 1 page

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-share-to-pdf-only-creates-pdf-with-1-page/221861>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-share-to-pdf-only-creates-pdf-with-1-page/221861 "2020-03-03T10:52:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-share-to-pdf-only-creates-pdf-with-1-page/221861/4 "2020-03-03T17:24:38Z")

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Thanks, this is a known issue and should be fixed in 7.6.1

> [@Difficulties / Bugs with Canvas](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difficulties-bugs-with-canvas/220422/2):
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> Hi, this is a known issue and it will be fixed in 7.6.1: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/56928](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/56928) (It was totally my fault too - sorry about that!) Whenever you make any changes to the workpad, the entire workpad gets re-uploaded to Elasticsearch for auto-saving. Canvas maintains the workpad as a single string of JSON, with the images converted to base64 format. It sounds like the overall size of the workpad is pretty high for Elasticsearch, or a proxy server in front of Elasticsearch. E…

Best,  
Matthias

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