Style the exported document
What the video shows
- In SignPlus global configuration, open Export styling and choose the typeface and the page.
- Turn on a first page. The preview shows the cover with the logo, the title, the author and the month.
- Build the footer from parts, such as the page version and the page number.
- Select Save export styling. A flag says the settings are saved.
- Every exported and signed document carries the same first page, header and footer.
Every document SignPlus produces, whether it goes out for signature or is downloaded as a PDF, is laid out by one renderer inside Atlassian’s runtime. Export styling, on the global settings screen, decides how it looks.
The tab has five sections: Type and page, First page, Header, Footer and Advanced. Nothing applies until you select Save export styling at the foot of the tab, which says Unsaved changes until you do.
The preview in each section is drawn at the document’s real proportions: sizes, weights and placement match the PDF at the chosen page width. The typeface is the nearest one your browser has, so letter shapes differ. To see the real type, use the PDF download in the signing panel on any page.
It changes documents signed from now on
Documents already signed are unchanged, and their signatures stay valid. Styling is not part of what the page hash covers, so restyling never makes a signed page read as modified.
Type and page
| Setting | Options |
|---|---|
| Font | Roboto, Open Sans or Noto Serif, or upload your own: a .ttf or .otf file up to 350KB. An uploaded font is one face, so bold and italic are drawn from it rather than from separate files |
| Body size, in points | Between 6 and 18. 10.5 by default, which is Confluence’s own body size. Headings, tables, icons and panels scale with it, so changing it changes the whole document |
| Page size | A4, or Letter |
| Margins | Narrow, normal or wide |
Header and footer
A header and a footer are each built from parts laid side by side, which share the width equally. A part is either text or an image:
- Text takes any wording and any of the placeholders below, with its own size, alignment, bold, italic and capitals.
- An image is a PNG or a JPEG up to 150KB, with its height set in points. A logo is the usual use.
Turn a band on with Show a header on every page or Show a footer on every page. Drag a part by its handle to reorder it. Draw a line between the header and the page, and the same for the footer, adds a hairline rule. Show on the first page decides whether the band is also drawn on the first page, and it is greyed out until there is one.
By default the header is off and the footer shows {pageNumber} / {pageCount}, centred.
First page
Add a first page to every document puts a page of its own before the document, with a top, a middle and a bottom:
- Top and bottom are built from parts that share the width, like the header, so one can sit left and another right.
- Middle is one line at a time, down the centre of the page, each with its own size and alignment. Leave the size empty to use the body size.
The default first page shows the document name, the page’s author and the date, centred. While a first page is on, the page title is not printed again at the top of the first Confluence page, because the first page already carries it.
Placeholders
Type any of these into a text part. Each is replaced with its real value when the document is made, and everything else you type stays as it is. Placeholders, beside each section’s Add a part, opens this list on the screen.
| Type this | And it becomes | For example |
|---|---|---|
{pageNumber} |
The number of the page it is drawn on | 3 |
{pageCount} |
How many pages the document has | 12 |
{documentName} |
The name the signing was given | Service agreement |
{pageTitle} |
The Confluence page’s title | Supplier terms |
{spaceName} |
The space the page lives in | Legal |
{pageVersion} |
The version this document was made from | 7 |
{date} |
The date the document was exported, written the way the site writes dates | 19/09/2026 |
{date.year} |
The year alone | 2026 |
{date.month} |
The month by name, in the site’s own language | September |
{date.day} |
The day of the month alone | 19 |
{time} |
The time the document was exported | 09:24 |
{author} |
Who created the Confluence page | Mari Tamm |
{author.name} |
The same as {author} |
Mari Tamm |
{author.email} |
The author’s email address | mari.tamm@example.com |
{pageVersion} is worth putting in a footer. It prints on every page the version the
signature belongs to, which is the same number the page hash is computed from.
Your own CSS
Under Advanced, a stylesheet applied after the built-in one, so a rule here overrides the matching built-in rule and leaves everything else alone. Leave it empty unless the settings above cannot express what you need.
What CSS can and cannot do here
The document is drawn by a PDF engine, not a browser. Colour, size, weight, alignment, spacing, borders and backgrounds work. Floats, positioning, media queries and anything that depends on a viewport do not.
What a space may change
Nothing, until a site administrator allows it. Two levels of switch decide it:
- Let space administrators style exported documents, under App settings, is the master switch, and it is off by default. With it off, every space uses the site’s styling.
- With it on, each control on the export styling screen carries its own switch, such as Let each space set its own first page or Let each space write its own CSS. A site can keep one typeface everywhere and still let each space put its own logo in the footer.
On a space’s screen, a control the site has kept reads Set by your site administrator.
Related
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