Markdown Printer

Prints markdown files to PDF.

Requiremets

You need Chromium to be installed locally to run this program.

CLI Usage

mdprinter test.md -s air outputs PDF file test.pdf.

API Usage

It's also possible to use mdprinter as package in other apps:

p := mdprinter.New()
pdfBuf, err := p.
  WithInterpolation(struct{
    Name string
	  Age string
  }{
	  Name: "John",
	  Age: "25",
  }).
  WithStyle("air").
  WithAlign("left").
  WithCustomCss("./mycustom.css").
  Process(markdownData)

Styles

• Built-in styles

4 styles from https://markdowncss.github.io/ available:

• modest
• retro
• air
• splendor

Use them with -s or --style flag.

• Alignment

You can set contents alignment using -a or --align flag. Available options are:

• left
• center
• right

• Custom styles

You can provide your own custom css using -c or --custom flag. Set it to the path of your CSS file.

Interpolation

You can interpolate data into markdown file. To do this, you need to have your data in JSON file. In the markdown file follow the rules of templating from https://pkg.go.dev/text/template. Then run programm with -d or --data flag set to the path of your file.

Examples

Play with files in examples/ folder. Run

go run cmd/mdprinter/main.go examples/example.md -s retro -a left -d examples/exampleData.json

to get the PDF.