md2pdf

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