straight-shoota / md2pdf

Convert markdown files to pdf with flexible template and stylesheet

MD2PDF

Convert markdown files to PDF with flexible template and stylesheet using wkhtmltopdf.

The app itself does not to much, it just ties together wkhtmltopdf (using blocknotes/wkhtmltopdf-crystal) with markd (Crystal CommonMark parser) and Crinja (Crystal template engine).

Examples

Installation

There is currently no binary distribution, you'll need to build it yourself.

Building instructions

• install Crystal
• install libwkhtmltox For Ubuntu trusty:
  • sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
  • wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
  • sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
  • sudo ldconfig
• download MD2PDF repository
• run shards build
• now the executable is available in bin/md2pdf

Usage

The programm is usually run as md2pdf myfile.md which will generate a PDF at myfile.pdf.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/straight-shoota/md2pdf/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• straight-shoota Johannes Müller - creator, maintainer