Have you tried using the PDF export (click on "PDF క్రింద దిగుమతి చేసుకోండి") instead of the "printer friendly version" or creating a book/collection (click on "ఓ పుస్తకాన్ని సృష్టించండి")? Adding some of the PediaPress devs in case there are some concerns with the Collection extension that they could address.

If there is a compelling reason for not using the above methods, then I'll see if we can't get this fixed sooner.

Indic rendering on PDF is not up to mark yet, So thats a bigger problem than this. I think Santhosh is working on it, but may take time. Fixing this will do good for the time being.

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Sample print output from a copy of https://te.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%

PDF shows the reealllllly long permalink URL broken over 5 lines in the print footer. While possible in principle, it doesn't look very easy to type. :)

Note that the title isn't actually necessary in the permalink, but the 'oldid=1517' at the end is vital to getting that particular version of the page (and would, on its own, be sufficient).

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Test patch: changes print footer to decode Unicode chars as a pretty IRI

Test patch: changes print footer to decode Unicode chars as a pretty IRI (Internationalized Resource Identifier). Only changes the print footer, but adds a wfExpandIRI() function as a sister of wfExpandUrl().

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PDF output with the patch

PDF output with the patch. Several things to note:

• by default, titles will still use underscores instead of spaces here. this may or may not look good with all scripts
• the URL is still longish due to presence of index.php?title= and the oldid=1517 is bumped to the second line.

I might recommend changing permalinks in general to a more compact format that puts the oldid first.

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Note the PDF output above is produced by print to file on Firefox 8 on Ubuntu 11.10.

The patch proposed by Brion is submitted here https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3897 - with slight modification.

This is already merged