[Feature] Variable column width in PDF output

[fraserbennett]

Background
Side-by-side presentations of text and images are more effective in training presentation contexts. The texts accompanying images frequently require less vertical space than the images.

Problem

• Images in columns that are not equal-width are rendered full-width in PDF output. (Images in one of two equal-width columns are rendered properly.)

Desired behavior
Respect the column widths specified in the Notion authoring environment in PDF output.

Screenshots
Notion editing environment:

PDF output:

[hatton]

At root, this isn't actually a Screen vs. PDF issue. If you make your browser window thinner, you will see the same thing. What's happening is that the PDF is not as wide as your screen, so the responsive stylesheet runs out of room and correctly places the item in the second column below the first.

You can also see the problem go away if you tell the Print to PDF to reduce by 80% (with A4).

Probably there is a CSS improvement that could make this happen less often with A4 or letter pages.

[fraserbennett]

Coming back to this topic after a month! What you say makes sense, but it would be helpful to make that CSS improvement. As things stand, the prospects are poor for using the system to generate PDF-based documentation for training workshops.