While this has been fixed in CONF-30114 to a certain degree, when this is exported it reverts back to the unsorted ordering thus making it useless for exporting PDF documention.

I've read into people who have put in workarounds, and while I have hacked some of the CCS in the Global PDF Stylesheet. I am unable to locate the required code to sort the tables by a set column. Please can this either be fixed so that exports retain the viewable sort, or advise on the code required to sort this from the Global PDF Stylesheet?

This can be resolved as I've found in my research the workaround it to use advanced searching advise described here https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver070/advanced-searching-keywords-reference-762877745.html