问题
I'm trying to convert a Markdown file into a PDF. I'm looking for only two things:
- A way to easily change the style of the pdf (for example with a CSS file)
- A syntax highlighter for code blocks
What tools can I use for that? I tried Pandoc, but it uses Latex for the formatting which is not easy to use.
回答1:
Pandoc can convert your Markdown to HTML, but the styling/layout is a different topic. If you want to produce a PDF but use CSS for styling, you need something that can interpret CSS. That is either use a browser and print to PDF, pay for Prince or try wkhtmltopdf. Btw, pandoc can also use wkhtmltopdf now:
pandoc -t html --css mystyles.css input.md -o output.pdf
But I suspect if you want a beautifully-typeset PDF for free you'll have to learn LaTeX or ConTeXt which is a modern and more self-contained replacement for LaTeX, both can be used with pandoc. See creating a PDF with pandoc.
You can also give PanWriter a try: a markdown editor I built, where you can inject CSS and export the PDF from the paginated preview.
回答2:
There is really nice and simple tool for browsing Markdown documents which additionally supports export to PDF features:
GFMS - Github Flavored Markdown Server
It's simple and lightweight (no configuration needed) HTTP server you can start in any directory containing markdown files to browse them.
Features:
- full GFM Markdown support
- source code syntax highlighting
- browsing files and directories
- nice looking output (and configurable CSS style sheets)
- export to PDF (best-looking markdown-to-pdf output I've ever seen)
gfms -p 8888
wget "http://localhost:8888/file.md?pdf" -O file.pdf
回答3:
To a certain extent, I'd suggest just learning the basic latex formatting you need - it removes a layer of interpretation by the renderer.
However, pandoc does support html input, so in theory, you could export markdown->html(with custom css), then call pandoc again to convert to html. I don't know if (or how much) of the formatting would be saved - css can be really complicated to parse.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23825317/how-to-convert-markdown-css-pdf