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Introduction

PDFs can be generated at any time for all documents in Lawmaker. You can generate them from the Editor or from the Project Tab, Amendment Workspace Tab or the Official Lists Tab.

When you generate a PDF it will open in a separate tab or window in your browser.

How to generate a PDF

  1. From the Editor: select Document > Generate PDF from the upper tool bar menu options

  2. From outside the Editor: Select Actions > Generate PDF from the drop-down menu on the document you want to generate a PDF from.

  3. Change the settings if necessary and then click Generate.

PDF generation settings

  1. 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)

  3. Click on the Generate button

  4. 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.

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