Numbers exports entire document as a single page PDF

I'm trying to give numbers a shot on an iPad, but so far I'm running into what seems like a very critical bug.
I have a relatively simple numbers document that I'm working with. If I were to print it via os x, it would span 3 8.5x11 pages. It would stand to reason then, that if I exported it to a PDF, I would get a PDF with three 8.5x11 sized pages. But no matter what I do, when I export to PDF (On iOS or OS X) I get one long PDF that's a single page that doesn't fit any standardized page size. At least on OS X I can print and save a PDF from the print dialogue. That option doesn't exist on iOS. Does anyone habe a workaround for this bizarre behavior?

Can't answer your question, but I experience something a little different, I have a one page Numbers file that contains a chart, a 4x6 table and title. When I go to print to see if it fits on one page and I have the page set to Portrait, and the size set to US (I assume this means 8.5x11) it fits just fine. Then I exit Print and try to export to PDF to open in another app (ZoomNotes) but while it prepared the PDF, the preview doesn't look like an 8.5x11 representation, then when I open it in zoomnotes, it gets imported as a 9.5x11 and zoomnotes won't change it. There needs to be a way to force PDF exports to the correct page size.
Sorry for for jumping on your post, but maybe with some activity, we'll both get someone looking at this.

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