Bump this issue to get attention. It looks like an old bug. See the following topic in the forum.

https://www.limesurvey.org/forum/design-issues/102678-quexml-pdf-export-of-text-display-bug

I would appreciate any feedback on this.
Thanks.

Hello demedia,
This should already be fixed in recent versions.
Can you please check if this issue still exists in the latest version of LimeSurvey and let us know?
Thank you!

Hi there,

I can confirm that the issue is still existing using the latest stable Limesurvey release (3.27.13+210823) but I haven`t checked version 5.x yet

Also not working for Limesurvey 5.1.5+210830

@demedia I check with version 5.1.8 and it works as expected. Can you confirm that?
If not can you please attach a 2-question sample survey and the faulty PDF`?

My recent experience with LimeSurvey Cloud, Version 3.27.16, has been that "Text display" type questions do show up in queXML PDF export, but all questions of this type are being moved to the beginning of the question group they appear in, more precisely: into the box that starts with "Part X: [title of question group]".

I encountered the same problem in 6.1
It does however seem to not be a bug but rather intentional.

in \limesurvey\application\helpers\export_helper.php

        //boilerplate questions convert to sectionInfo elements
        $Rows = App()->db->createCommand()
            ->select('*')
            ->from("{{questions}} q")
            ->join('{{question_l10ns}} ql', 'q.qid=ql.qid')
            ->where("q.sid=:sid AND q.gid=:gid AND type LIKE 'X' AND ql.language=:language", array(':sid' => $iSurveyID, ':gid' => $gid, ':language' => $quexmllang))
            ->order('question_order ASC')
            ->queryAll();

        foreach ($Rows as $RowQ) {
            // placeholder substitution
            $RowQ['question'] = templatereplace($RowQ['question'], $RowQReplacements);
            $sectionInfo = $dom->createElement("sectionInfo");
            $position = $dom->createElement("position", "before");
            $text = $dom->createElement("text", QueXMLCleanup($RowQ['question']));
            $administration = $dom->createElement("administration", "self");
            $sectionInfo->appendChild($position);
            $sectionInfo->appendChild($text);
            $sectionInfo->appendChild($administration);
            $section->appendChild($sectionInfo);
        }

Not sure why that is, maybe it has something todo with the quexml format?
Since we only needed the pdf file for printing, i removed this and the AND q.type NOT LIKE 'X' below so the questions are shown at the right positions in the pdf.