Tab cover page added in generated documents

Google Docs recently added "tabs" which are causing issues when exporting files as PDF. You find tabs on the left side of your document template:

If you don't make any changes about these tabs, they won't cause an issue. If, however, you modify them once in your template, a tab cover page will be added to PDF exports:

You're going to see something like the following as your first page:

Fix

The temporary fix for this is to enable "Remove First Page" in your automation settings (under 4 Template / Document Generation Options):

Hopefully, the Google Drive API will be updated soon about this and this options won't be necessary anymore then.

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