Help:Books
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Create a book
With the book creator you can create a book containing wiki pages of your choice. You can export the book in different formats (for example PDF or ODF) or order a printed copy.
Please read Wikipedia's Help:Books for tips and a step-by-step guide, which includes a video guide on how to create a book!
Download as PDF
From 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 two columns. The last page(s) include "Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses" listing all of the contributors, "Images" listing all of the images used in the article, and "Content license" listing the article licensing.
Links within the article and to external sites are preserved.
If you have PDF software, you can use it to create a PDF which may give more control over the output.
Mobile devices will default to the Mobile view which does not include Download as PDF in the sidebar. To enable it, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Desktop.
Troubleshooting
This functionality relies on a third-party server to generate the PDF and at times the service might not be available and sometimes you might get an error message: book rendering failed - there was an error while attempting to render your book.
As we have no control over the third-party server, you might want to wait a few minutes and then retry the Download as PDF.