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PDFs can be generated at any time for bills and SI/SSIs or the ‘Draft Amendments’ tab for Lists of Draft Amendments.  They can be generated from the ‘Project’ tab or from the Editor

How to generate a PDF

  1. Either:

    1. From the ‘Project’ tab - Select Generate PDF from the drop-down menu on the document/list you want to generate a PDF from, or

    2. From the Editor - select “Document > Generate PDF” from the upper tool bar menu options

  3. Select your preferred settings from the modal:

    1. Pages/provisions/Amendments to include

      1. All provisions/amendments, or

      2. Select one or more non-contiguous provisions/amendments

    3. Track changes

      1. Show tracked changes or show changes applied

      2. Include side-lining

    5. Footers

      1. Insert footers

      2. Optionally include a footer note which can be up to 2 lines of text

      3. Optionally include page numbers (List of Draft Amendments only)

    7. Extras

      1. Include line numbering (Bills only)

      2. Show J numbers in margin (Bills and SI/SSIs only)

      3. Show D Numbers (Amendments only - displays the unique number e.g. HoC1)

    9. Document version

      1. The option to record a snapshot version (available for working versions and snapshot document versions only)

  5. Click on the Generate button

  6. The system will generate a PDF based on your supplied preferences and present it in a new browser tab

How to view a PDF (‘Project’ tab only)

  1. Select View PDF from the drop-down menu on the selected document version

  2. The stored PDF will be presented in another browser tab

Hints and tips

  • If the PDF isn’t appearing in a new tab, check that you have pop-ups enabled for Lawmaker (click on the padlock to the left of the URL in the browser address bar will give you quick access to adjust these settings)

  • Footer notes will appear on every page of your document

‘Project’ tab only

  • If you generate a PDF from the ‘Project’ tab, it will present the saved changes only – if you were working on changes in the Editor and hadn’t saved them yet, they will not be visible in the generated PDF.

  • If you generate a PDF from the working version or the snapshot version, you will have the option to create a snapshot version which will store the PDF you generated to view again at a later date – as well as the corresponding XML should you want to generate another PDF with different options selected

Editor only

  • If you generate a PDF from the Editor, it will present what you’ve got in the Editor view – including changes that you haven’t saved.

Bills and Amendments only

  • You can only publish a document version when a PDF has been created.  PDF snapshot versions will have the additional option to ‘publish’ if you are a Parliament user.