This ticket used to document the current tasks of the WMDE developers. A more general ticket for open issues around tables in pdfs can be found here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73808
**Problem**: When downloading an article as pdf or as a book in pdf form, tables of any kind seem to be omitted.
**Example**: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob-Weltmeisterschaft_2016
**Background**:
This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 German Community Wishlist: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2015/PDF_und_Drucken#Tabellen_in_PDFs
It received 22 support votes and was ranked #11: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2015/Topw%C%BCnsche#Anzeige_eines_Hinweises.2C_dass_Tabellen_in_PDFs_nicht_.28fehlerfrei.29_dargestellt_werden_.5BUmfrage_2015.5D
This was also in the international Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey
There it received 23 support votes, and was ranked #39 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Templates#Inserting_templates_.28tables.29_in_PDF_and_Books