Options for PDF export to honor hide_parameters and titled flags
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Description
**What problem will this feature request solve?**
Exporting a dashboard to PDF always renders the header, title, tab bar, and filter chips, which creates visual noise for automated snapshots.
Interactive embedding already supports hiding chrome with flags like titled=false, hide_parameters=, and bordered=false; the PDF export must honor these same flags for parity.
This aligns with an existing request reference metabase/metabase#58530
The issue impacts automated report delivery where recipients don’t need the chrome, just the dashboard body, and is currently not configurable for PDFs.
**Describe the solution you'd like.**
There should be a method for hiding title & parameters on PDF, like a toggle for these elements.
**How does this feature request impact you?**
This adds visual noise that can undesired when sending PDF subscriptions to end customers.
**Additional information**
This is in part a consequence of https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/35475
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the PDF export path and comparing it with interactive embedding, focusing on the existing titled, hide_parameters, and bordered flags. Done means PDF exports honor the requested chrome-hiding options and automated dashboard snapshots can omit the header, title, tab bar, and filter chips; use issue #58530 and issue #35475 for context.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- clojure
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100