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

Once again the pdf download function sometimes hangs, times out, or takes double-digit minutes to respond..

I have pointed this out (complained, really) several times and it is beyond me why you cannot fix this once and for all. Gazillions of websites have download-as-pdf and they work fine every time.

As I said in my last "complaint" you are not getting single penny from me at donation time unless this is fixed once and for all and that incredibly embarrassing months-old "We have technical problems with the function we use to create PDFs. We unfortunately have to replace it." message is gone because it is no longer needed.

Wikipedia combines being one of the most visited websites in the world with being run without profit and refusing to sell ads. This is important, and we wouldn't be the same if it weren't true, but we never quite have the developer time and resources we'd like to have. There are more things that don't work as one would expect on one of the world's largest websites – it's more difficult to develop things for Wikipedia, because of the amount of traffic a function has to endure.

(Nothing is ever fixed once and for all. Entropy gets us all in the end. Code has to be fixed, then redone, as time passes.)

Nevertheless, we hope these problems are caused by the current renderer, which we hopefully will replace in a couple of weeks. We'd be grateful if you could keep an eye out for that announcement and tell us if it hasn't fixed the problems for you.

Also, could you tell me what articles you've been trying to make PDFs out of?

And what type connection you've been using to access the internet?