https://github.com/georgiifirsov/md_to_pdf

Simple utility to convert from markdown format into pretty PDF document. It is written in Rust programming language.
https://github.com/georgiifirsov/md_to_pdf

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Simple utility to convert from markdown format into pretty PDF document. It is written in Rust programming language.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/georgiifirsov/md_to_pdf
• Owner: GeorgiiFirsov
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-05-04T10:36:35.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-29T15:38:24.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T13:22:28.323Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: markdown, pdf, pdf-converter, rust, rust-lang, rust-language
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 718 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# md_to_pdf

### Brief

Simple utility to convert from Markdown format into pretty PDF document. 

It is written in Rust programming language using several libraries:

- `comrak` to convert markdown into HTML,

- `wkhtmltopdf` to parse HTML with embedded CSS and render PDF document.

### How it works

This small console app converts Markdown text directly into HTML document,

which is extended and decorated by CSS styles. Full CSS style is embedded

into the application as a resource and then inserted into the HTML document.

After that application parses some HTML tokens and extends them by adding

custom classes to them. This HTML document is converted into PDF file.

### Installing

#### Linux and macOS

Depends on [wkhtmltopdf][1] that can be downloaded and installed with a package 

manager as such as apt, pacman or Homebrew. After installing this dependency run:

```

cargo install --git https://github.com/GeorgyFirsov/md_to_pdf.git

```

### Usage

```shell

./md_to_pdf -i ../my_awesome_document.md -o ../output/my_awesome_document.pdf

```

### Example

Current Markdown document (this README.md) is converted into the following PDF:

![Example](./docs/images/example.png)

[1]: https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html