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Export as PDF
Screenshot of the note contextual menu indicating the “Export as PDF” option.
On the desktop application of Trilium it is possible to export a note as PDF. On the server or PWA (mobile), the option is not available due to technical constraints and it will be hidden.
To print a note, select the 
button to the right of the note and select Export as PDF.
Afterwards you will be prompted to select where to save the PDF file.
Automatic opening of the file
When the PDF is exported, it is automatically opened with the system default application for easy preview.
Note that if you are using Linux with the GNOME desktop environment, sometimes the default application might seem incorrect (such as opening in GIMP). This is because it uses Gnome's “Recommended applications” list.
To solve this, you can change the recommended application for PDFs via this command line. First, list the available applications via gio mime application/pdf and then set the desired one. For example to use GNOME's Evince:
gio mime application/pdf
Reporting issues with the rendering
Should you encounter any visual issues in the resulting PDF file (e.g. a table does not fit properly, there is cut off text, etc.) feel free to report the issue. In this case, it's best to offer a sample note (click on the button, select Export note → This note and all of its descendants → HTML in ZIP archive). Make sure not to accidentally leak any personal information.
Landscape mode
When exporting to PDF, there are no customizable settings such as page orientation, size, etc. However, it is possible to specify a given note to be printed as a PDF in landscape mode by adding the #printLandscape attribute to it (see Attributes).
Page size
By default, the resulting PDF will be in Letter format. It is possible to adjust it to another page size via the #printPageSize attribute, with one of the following values: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, Legal, Letter, Tabloid, Ledger.
Keyboard shortcut
It's possible to trigger the export to PDF from the keyboard by going to Keyboard shortcuts in Options and assigning a key combination for the exportAsPdf action.