Topic on Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality/Flow

I am now informed that owing to what appears to be some life-expired Wikipedia equipment, it is now only possible to print out such templates as a PDF instead of the printability version that existed until recently. What is the truth of the matter and if that be the case, will Wikipedia obtain equipment to allow the printing out as before.?

Where are you getting this information, because it's not true. Also, if you have a problem with a type of content, please LINK to an article and the template in question, so that people can look at it.

I think that Jc86035 is also addressing parts of the points that I endeavour to make, in his recent comments on this page.

Or use a screenshot to show what the problem is. (: The one thing that's been removed for now is the ability to create PDF books by combining articles and then turn them into a PDF. How other services you use look might have changed a bit, though.

(It's not equipment per se, it's just that code doesn't live forever. It ages, for various reasons.)

I note your final sentence above and indeed it is the code, not the equipment, that seems to have been the problem. I would like it noted that I regard the PDF sanserif print typeface as a retrograde step when compared to the typeface used in the printable version on the RDT templates.

I am sorry if I have not expressed myself with clarity. My main complaint is the "Printable Version" option no longer seems to exist on the various Wikipedia RDT template options that were once so readily available, Whilst not many seem to use this facility, I actually do use it in tasks that I perform.

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> My main complaint is the "Printable Version" option no longer seems to exist

Hmm, i don't remember we changed anything about the presence of printable version/Print page, but there is indeed no printable version link on Template pages... That seems like a bug.

Is this a bug that can be fixed, so the "printable version" on RDT templates can be made available.

Ping @OVasileva (WMF).

This has now been done in an e-mail.