Any Markdown editor that can convert to PDF? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 year ago by QuazarOmega@lemy.lol to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Quillnote for a long time now and this is a feature I've been sorely missing, are there other apps that can help me do the conversion?

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[-] donio@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use pandoc:
pandoc input.md -o out.pdf

It can use LaTeX or pdfroff for the PDF generation as well as some other backends that I haven't tried yet. The --pdf-engine flag lets you choose between them.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, so there are some available engines on Termux? I had tried just what you did and not specifying the engine would result in an error of missing pdflatex, could you give me the whole command please? Or the packages I need to install first

[-] donio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I must admit that I didn't realize that we were on c/F-Droid :) But I just gave it a go in termux and got it working there too:

apt install pandoc groff ghostscript
pandoc in.md -o out.pdf --pdf-engine=pdfroff

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Pandoc is awesome. Highly recommend. Since it can also do numerous other conversions.

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