abgnpr / md-to-pdf

How to setup a markdown to pdf converter on your linux machine.

Markdown → PDF

Setting up a command line utility for converting markdown(with custom css) to pdf.

Requirements

Install these from the command line.

• pandoc

  sudo apt install pandoc

• wkhtmltopdf

  sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf

Setup

Copy this into ~/.bash_aliases

mdtopdf() {
     filename="${1%.*}"
     pandoc -t html $filename.md -o $filename.pdf
}

OR

Copy this instead if you want to use custom css

mdtopdf() {
     filename="${1%.*}"
     pandoc -t html --css /path/to/custom.css $filename.md -o $filename.pdf
}

replace /path/to/custom.css with the path of your css file.

Usage

$ mdtopdf sample.md

[WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element.
  Please specify either 'title' or 'pagetitle' in the metadata,
  e.g. by using --metadata pagetitle="..." on the command line.
  Falling back to 'sample'
Loading page (1/2)
Printing pages (2/2)                                               
Done

Ignore the warning.

You'll find the output pdf in the same folder as the markdown file.