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A free software alternative is MediaWiki2LaTeX. It works with any website running MediaWiki, like Wikipedia and Wikibooks. It may be used online or installed locally. |
You can export a Wikipedia page such as an article and save it as a PDF file in several ways:
This page offers help with Wikipedia's download tool.
Browse to the page you want to download. Make sure you have Desktop view selected. Mobile devices which default to the Mobile view do not display the required options; to switch to Desktop view, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Desktop
.
In the left sidebar, under Print/export select Download as PDF
. The rendering engine starts and a dialog appears to show the rendering progress. When rendering is complete, the dialog shows "The document file has been generated. Download the file to your computer." Click the download link to open the PDF in your selected PDF viewer.
PDFs are rendered in a single full-width column. At the end are added:
Links within the article and to external sites are preserved. They are not highlighted, but your device's user interface will typically indicate when you are hovering over a link.
To view the PDF you must have a browser or other application which directly supports PDF viewing. For browser support, see Comparison of web browsers § Image format support. For PDF applications, see List of PDF software.
PDFs are rendered by the Proton rendering service, see its pages on MediaWiki and on Phabricator. Proton itself is built around headless Chromium.
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