Help:Download as PDF
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Wikipedia pages can be exported and saved as PDF files.
PDF viewers
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Issues
- PDFs are rendered in two columns; this cannot be changed
- The table of contents is not rendered
- Tables, including infoboxes, are not rendered; see T85777, T73296, T73311
- Columns in the article are rendered as a single column within the PDF columns
- Grouped references do not render; see T41095
- Many CSS properties are ignored, causing template issues; see T32702,
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elements do not render; see T23504- Long equations are overflowing
See T134205