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Infoboxes and tables do not appear in PDFs
I wonder why the infoboxes and tables do not appear in the PDF version of articles, after rendering. I tested a few articles in Wikipedias in English (en) and Portuguese (pt), and the problem persists in both versions. Thanks in advance! Fúlvio (talk) 22:41, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Same problem on my Mac 10.6.8. PDF rendering worked fine till a couple of weeks ago, then consistently leaves out infoboxes and tables. Have I accidentally changed PDF preferences? Djbcjk (talk) 10:53, 19 October 2014 (UTC)


 * As you say, it doesn't work currently. There is a discussion at Village pump (technical)/Archive 131. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:08, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Now when I go to 'Downland as PDF' it returns a message 'Book rendering failed'. What on earth is going on? Is anybody fixing this mess? Djbcjk (talk) 11:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Looks like it went to village pump technical and got a kiss-off. Apparently they changed the software or something and are now hoping for magic volunteer genies to fix what WMF broke.  But as I said there, this still a problem.  The tables and infoboxes are still not appearing.  I tried this on two different featured articles, and as anyone can see if you do a "download as pdf", critical information is omitted. On Appaloosa, where the breed infobox and a critical illustrated chart of coat color patterns is omitted, and on California Chrome the pdf version omits the infobox and a chart of all his racing statistics (material that is really not easy to render in a simple bulleted list.)  I'd say that if WMF broke it, they need to fix is and not wait for volunteers to do it.   Montanabw (talk) 20:19, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Tried rendering List of mountains in Seoul and the table (the whole reason for this article BTW) did not appear. Both tables and info boxes play a big role in the book I am putting together on Korean mountains. Kellnerp (talk) 06:28, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Since it looks like it's been a few months since anyone said anything about this, I just thought I'd mention that tables and infoboxes still don't seem to be showing up on the PDFs even now. Alphius (talk) 20:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * bump -- Trödel 21:12, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Bump again 194.47.243.183 (talk) 10:28, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Vorrei sapere perchè le tabelle non esistono nei pdf o nei libri con più pagine. Esistono intere pagine che si basano solo sulle tabelle (un esempio lampante è la pagine sull'elenco dei passeggeri del Titanic. In realtà è un insieme di tante tabelle. Che ovviamente non appaiono nel pdf) e molte altre pagine che hanno dati e informazioni importanti nelle tabelle. PRETENDO di poterle vedere sia nei pdf che nei libri!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.211.214.206 (talk) 06:45, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Translation: "I would like to know why there are no tables in pdf or books with more pages. There are whole pages that are based only on tables (a prime example is the page on the list of passengers on the Titanic. It is in fact a series of many tables. That of course does not appear in the pdf) and many other pages that have important data and information in tables. PRETEND you can see them both in pdf and in books!!!!." &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:04, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Si prega di leggere il messaggio di avviso nella parte superiore di questa pagina di aiuto. (Translation: Please read the warning box at the top of this help page.) &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:04, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

This still seems to be broken. Is anyone working on this? How do we get some visibility on this to get it fixed? Bkellihan (talk) 06:12, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * You find a developer willing to work on it as a volunteer. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 07:31, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Or persuade the Wikimedia Foundation to expend scarce resources on it. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:39, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

At the least, a warning, or some kind of sign should appear in the page to tell you that the content is not rendered. And a warning in book creator itself, so you know before you go to print it that it won't include some content. I find the only workaround is to show the printable form of the page, and then print that as pdf. 106.154.28.39 (talk) 00:40, 23 September 2016 (UTC)