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https://github.com/baileyjm02/markdown-to-pdf

A GitHub Action to make PDF and HTML files from Markdown
https://github.com/baileyjm02/markdown-to-pdf

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A GitHub Action to make PDF and HTML files from Markdown

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# Markdown to PDF

[![CI](https://github.com/BaileyJM02/markdown-to-pdf/actions/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/BaileyJM02/markdown-to-pdf/actions/workflows/main.yml)



Creates PDF and HTML files from Markdown using the GitHub (or custom) theme.



## Notable Features:



- Code highlighting

- Tables

- Images (see docs)

- Internal and external links



## GitHub Action Inputs



### Input Path



```yaml

with:

  input_path: value

```



(**Required**)

([Path](#path)) or ([File](#file))

The location of the folder containing your .md or .markdown files, or a path to a single .md or .markdown file that you would like to convert.



*Note, previous versions of this action accepted the `input_dir` input. This is still accepted as input for backwards compatibility, but passing a directory as `input_path` now carries out the same functionality.



### Images Directory



```yaml

with:

  images_dir: value

```



([Path](#path))

The location of the folder containing your images, this should be the route of all images. So of you had images located

at `images/about/file.png` and `images/something-else/file.png` you would pass the value `images`.



### Output Directory



```yaml

with:

  output_dir: value

```



([Path](#path))

The location of the folder you want to place the built files.



### Image Import Prefix



```yaml

with:

  image_import: value

```



([String](#string))

The path you use to import your images that can be replaced with the server URL. For example if you

had `` you would pass `./images` as this is replaced

by `https://localhost:3000` during the build process.



### Build HTML



```yaml

with:

  build_html: value

```



([Boolean](#boolean))

Whether to also create a .html file.



### Build PDF



```yaml

with:

  build_pdf: value

```



([Boolean](#boolean))

Whether to also create a .pdf file (defaults to `true`. After all, this is the intended behaviour).



### CSS Theme



```yaml

with:

  theme: value

```



([File](#file))

The location of the CSS file you want to use as the theme.



```yaml

with:

  extend_default_theme: value

```



([Boolean](#boolean))

Whether to extend your custom CSS file with the default theme



### Highlight CSS Theme



```yaml

with:

  highlight_theme: value

```



([File](#file))

The location of the CSS file you want to use as the code snipped highlight theme.



### HTML/Mustache Template file



```yaml

with:

  template: value

```



([File](#file))

The location of the HTML/Mustache file you want to use as the HTML template.



### Table Of Contents



```yaml

with:

  table_of_contents: value

```



([Boolean](#boolean))

Whether a table of contents should be generated



## Input Types



A few pieces to describe what input each value expects.



### Path



A path will most likely be from your repository's route, it should not be prefixed or suffixed with a `/`. The path

should look like so `docs/topic/featureDocs` or `writing/category`.



### String



A string could be anything, and using `YAML` (or `YML`) does not need to be encased in quotes.



### Boolean



This should be either `true` or `false`.



### File



This should be the direct path to a file, it should not be prefixed with a `/`. An example: `styles/markdown-theme.css`.



## Usage Examples



An example of a workflow for some documentation.



````yml

# .github/workflows/convert-to-pdf.yml



name: Docs to PDF

# This workflow is triggered on pushes to the repository.

on:

  push:

    branches:

      - main

    # Paths can be used to only trigger actions when you have edited certain files, such as a file within the /docs directory

    paths:

      - 'docs/**.md'

      - 'docs/images/**'



jobs:

  converttopdf:

    name: Build PDF

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:

      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - uses: baileyjm02/markdown-to-pdf@v1

        with:

          input_dir: docs

          output_dir: pdfs

          images_dir: docs/images

          # for example 

          image_import: ./images

          # Default is true, can set to false to only get PDF files

          build_html: false

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3

        with:

          name: docs

          path: pdfs



````



## Contributions



Any contributions are helpful, please make a pull-request. If you would like to discuses a new feature, please create an

issue first.