mkd2pdf

Renders markdown text in PDF using various renderers.

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 9.0.0
• One or more of the following software products:
  • Google Chrome >= 65.0.0
  • Prince >= 11.0
  • WeasyPrint >= 0.42.2

Installing

mkdir mkd2pdf && cd mkd2pdf
npm install mkd2pdf
sudo npm link

Usage

mkd2pdf input.md output.pdf

Please refer to mkd2pdf --help for more information.

Example

Supported Renderers

Renderer	Pros	Cons
Google Chrome	Free	Intermittent errors, long startup time Page header and footer generation is disabled because of hardcoded contents (local file name, title and date) Does not generate bookmarks Does not support metadata Does not support auto hyphenation
Prince	Stable and fast	Adds a small logo to the first page of generated PDF files when used with free/non-commercial license.
WeasyPrint (Recommended)	Open Source	A few HTML rendering shortcomings (should be fixed in 0.42.3)

Metadata mapping

You can specify metadata in markdown document, see example.md for an example.

PDF	Prince	WeasyPrint
Title	title	title
Author	author	author
Subject	subject	description
Keywords	keywords	keywords
Creator	generator	generator

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License