--- a/client/src/components/Pdftool.vue	Mon Jan 21 11:57:03 2019 +0100
+++ b/client/src/components/Pdftool.vue	Mon Jan 21 12:10:12 2019 +0100
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
  * * Bernhard E. Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
  * * Fadi Abbud <fadi.abbud@intevation.de>
  */
-import { mapState } from "vuex";
+import { mapGetters, mapState } from "vuex";
 import jsPDF from "jspdf";
 import { getPointResolution } from "ol/proj.js";
 import locale2 from "locale2";
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@
     ...mapState("application", ["showPdfTool", "secondaryLogo"]),
     ...mapState("bottlenecks", ["selectedSurvey"]),
     ...mapState("map", ["openLayersMap", "isolinesLegendImgDataURL"]),
+    ...mapGetters("map", ["getLayerByName"]),
     ...mapState("user", ["user"])
   },
   methods: {
@@ -216,16 +217,9 @@
         self.addPageInfo(pdf);
         self.addAboutBox(pdf, width, height);
 
-        // addLegend
-        // transforming into an HTMLImageElement only to find out
-        // the width x height of the legend image
-        // FUTURE: find a better way to get the width and height
-        let legendImage = new Image();
-        legendImage.src = self.isolinesLegendImgDataURL;
-        let aspectRatio = legendImage.width / legendImage.height;
-
-        self.addRoundedBox(pdf, width - 54, 0, 54, 50 / aspectRatio + 4);
-        pdf.addImage(legendImage, width - 52, 2, 50, 50 / aspectRatio);
+        if (self.getLayerByName("Bottleneck isolines").isVisible) {
+          self.addLegend(pdf, width, height);
+        }
 
         pdf.save("map.pdf");
         // reset to original size
@@ -430,6 +424,17 @@
       let str =
         "Dislaimer: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.";
       this.addText(doc, 5, docHeight - 6, 8, "black", 115, str);
+    },
+    addLegend(doc, docWidth) {
+      // transforming into an HTMLImageElement only to find out
+      // the width x height of the legend image
+      // FUTURE: find a better way to get the width and height
+      let legendImage = new Image();
+      legendImage.src = this.isolinesLegendImgDataURL;
+      let aspectRatio = legendImage.width / legendImage.height;
+
+      this.addRoundedBox(doc, docWidth - 54, 0, 54, 50 / aspectRatio + 4);
+      doc.addImage(legendImage, docWidth - 52, 2, 50, 50 / aspectRatio);
     }
   }
 };