Help talk:Download as PDF

Hi all, While attempting to use the "Download as pdf" feature for the first time, I noticed that the generated pdf does not keep the links to references in their original form. So, what happens is that many links in the generated pdf are just plain dead. For example, in this article (the version at the time of writing this), the references 38 and 39 do not get reflected in the generated pdf correctly and, though being working urls, appear to be dead. I suggest that something needs to be done in this regard, if not already done as soon as possible. Thanks. Rishidigital1055 (talk) 08:48, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi, why are the PDF files rendered with two columns? Oh, and dead links. Maybe someone should have a look at what the German Wikipedia is doing. You have a choice between one and two column layout. And the links are working. Bye. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.222.30.255 (talk) 18:26, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Every time i click the "download pdf" button i am getting "network error" and the file does not download. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.53.231 (talk) 20:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Not very helpful
No idea, if the PDF is disabled, what else is possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.2.85.95 (talk) 17:11, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Not convert in PDF file Abhishek Arya 0700 (talk) 13:31, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The download option is functioning normally again. If you cannot download PDF, this is a problem the Wikipedia service is not responsible for - you need to check your local firewalls and personal device. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 10:45, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

There should be an ability to download image as searchable PDF. Users have to download OCR software and manually convert otherwise.
 * The Wikipedia server has no knowledge how your web browser is configured to display the page. You already have (or can find elsewhere) tools to capture the screenshot and OCR it yourself, It is technically impossible for the Wikipedia service to help you with that. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 10:45, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

No such thing ...
The article states : "In the left sidebar, under Print/export".

There is no such thing as "Print/export", as of now. Once, there was a way to convert an article to pdf without all the non-sense not related to the article (such as side bars) that a context insensitive browser would render.

Is this another example of back-development presented as progress? 94.218.73.210 (talk) 20:50, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Paper sizes for "Download as PDF"?
I just noticed that the PDFs I've downloaded from Wikipedia appear to be rendered as A4 size. Is there a way to provide the option to download as 8.5x11 PDF? This would make things a lot easier for American users. Ajk1962f (talk) 00:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)