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.
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/pdfShould 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.
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).
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.
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.