Markdown to rtf or pdf?

[Chris Purcell]

>> I'm wondering if anybody is using Markdown for other contexts -- like
>> using if for word processing.
>>
>> If I understand the technical improvements of XHTML right, it seems 
>> like
>> it ought to be easy to transform it into other formats like rtf or pdf
>> files. Ideally I'd like some sort of applescript that I could use for
>> printing that would automagically convert my Markdown into a beautiful
>> RTF  or PDF file for sharing.
>
> I'd find this interesting too. But it's easier said than done. I
> don't know of anyone who's put together RTF or PDF converters like
> this.

Just from a quick Google: you could look at html2ps, a perl script. 
Once in postscript format, PDF is a quick conversion away.
	[html2ps] http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

Cheers,
Chris Purcell