MD to PDF conversion survey
Available tools
Installation script
These commands and tools have been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but some does not work on both.
# Update
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt autoremove -y
# Install Python and Pip
sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip
python3 -m pip install -U pip
# Install NodeJS and NPM
sudo apt install -y npm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install --lts
# Install Pandoc and LaTeX
sudo apt install -y pandoc texlive-latex-extra texlive-lang-french
# Install wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt install -y wkhtmltopdf
# Install weasyprint
pip install weasyprint
# Install mdpdf
npm install mdpdf --global
# Install md-to-pdf
npm install md-to-pdf --global
# Install markdown-pdf
npm install markdown-pdf --global
Conversion Makefile
all: pandoc clean
tmp.html: file.md
pandoc $< --output=$@
pandoc: file.md
pandoc $< --output=$@.pdf --metadata-file .header.yml
wkhtmltopdf: tmp.html
wkhtmltopdf --encoding utf-8 $< $@.pdf
pandoc-wkhtmltopdf: file.md
pandoc $< --output=$@.pdf --metadata-file .header.yml --pdf-engine=wkhtmltopdf
weasyprint: tmp.html
weasyprint --encoding utf-8 $< $@.pdf
mdpdf: file.md
mdpdf $< $@.pdf
md-to-pdf: file.md
cat $< | md-to-pdf > $@.pdf
markdown-pdf: file.md
markdown-pdf $< --out $@.pdf
clean:
rm -f tmp.*
clear: clean
rm -f *.pdf
This Makefile is inspired from this repo, you can clone it and give it a try.