Printing and saving a page as PDF
Most article pages on joshiastro have a Save as PDF button. It opens your browser's print dialog, where you can choose a PDF printer to save the page as a file.
What it is
The print layout hides the navigation, the footer and the forms, so the page prints as a plain text document. Tool pages print in the same way from the browser's own print command, though the button is not yet on each tool.
How it is worked out or read
To save a page, use the button or press Ctrl+P (Cmd+P on a Mac), then choose Save as PDF or Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. Check the page before saving, because a tool's results change with its inputs.
Where it appears on this site
The button is on article pages such as sidereal vs tropical. Tool results should be saved with their inputs noted.
Every article can be saved
Every article on this site, in English and Hindi, has a Save as PDF button. It opens the browser's print dialog with a print layout that hides the navigation and buttons, sets dark text on a white background and keeps headings with the text that follows them. Choosing Save as PDF as the destination produces a clean, readable file that can be kept for study, shared with family or printed later.
Saving tool results
The tool pages, such as the birth chart, panchang and dasha timeline, can be saved the same way using the browser's Print command, Ctrl+P on Windows or Cmd+P on a Mac. The print layout keeps the results and removes the form controls. Before saving, check that the inputs shown in the result are the ones you intended, since the PDF will record them.
Settings that help
In the print dialog, choose A4 or Letter to match your printer, keep margins at Default, and turn off the browser's own headers and footers if you do not want the page address and date printed on every page. Turn on background graphics only if you want any shaded boxes reproduced; the text is designed to be readable without them. Scale should usually be left at 100 percent.
Naming and organising files
Give each file a clear name, such as the article title, or for a chart the person's name and birth date. Keeping study notes in one folder and charts in another makes them easier to find later. If you correct a birth time and remake a chart, save the new version with a date in the file name rather than overwriting the old one, so that the history of the chart is preserved.
Reading on paper
Many readers find that longer articles are easier to study on paper, with space to write notes in the margin. The Hindi articles print with the same layout as the English, so a reader who prefers one language can keep a complete printed set in that language.