Markdown to rtf or pdf?

[Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov]

If you are sure that the XHTML of your article is well-formed you can 
use XSL:FO to generate a PDF, although doubt that any 
'public-cheaap-shared-allinclusive' hosts offer this option, and you 
will have to learn some XSL.

On 19-aug-04, at 17:01, Chris Purcell wrote:

>>> 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

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Julian "Julik" Tarkhanov