[PLUG] Converting markdown to pdf

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Wed Jun 16 17:37:14 UTC 2021


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:19:05AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Is there another way to convert from .md to .pdf and have a clean text
> file with included code?

Jump into your time machine and find a copy of enscript.

  https://www.markkurossi.com/genscript/

It's designed for pretty-printing of source code and won't render any of
the Markdown, but will at least make a very-long-lined file readable.
Something like:

  enscript --word-wrap your_file.md --output your_file.ps  &&  ps2pdf your_file.ps

(Don't leave out the `--output` option or enscript will send the
PostScript straight to your default printer.)


-- 
Paul



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