easiest markdown to PDF conversion

[Sherwood Botsford]

More info on page breaks:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3470341/CSS-and-Printing.htm

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html

The w3.org site is the canonical source for web standards.  Fair tutorials
on many things too.

At first blush it appears to me that a properly written CSS style sheet
would handle simple headers/footers (including pagination) and TOC.

This changes the flow for MMD to PDF.  At present, my understanding is the
it goes MMD ->XLT -> Latex -> PDF.

This would go MMD ->XLT -> HTML -> PDF.

It's not clear to me how the last step could be done from the command line
with most browsers.

Note that support for paged media varies by browser engine.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%28Cascading_Style_Sheets%29

Critically you don't have to support it universally -- if you want
printouts of your web pages, all you need is ONE with reasonable support.

>From that you can easily crank out PDFs.  I would suggest for your trials

to test current versions of Opera (presto engine)  Chrome (Webkit) Firefox
(Gecko) and internet explorer (Tasman)

Webkit is used by a LOT of browsers.  I don;t know how uniform it between
browsers nor how fast development is proceeding.



I would strong suggest making a small sample doc and doing a bunch of
tests.  If you are on a Mac, using "Print Preview" will save much paper.



Respectfully,

Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests --  http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
780-848-2548
50042 Range Rd 31
Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0




On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Sherwood Botsford <sgbotsford at gmail.com>wrote:


> Want web pages and printed output?  Take a look at this:

>

> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom

>

>

> Respectfully,

>

> Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

>

> Sherwood Botsford

> Sherwood's Forests --  http://Sherwoods-Forests.com

> 780-848-2548

> 50042 Range Rd 31

> Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0

>

>

>

>

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Fletcher Penney <

> fletcher at fletcherpenney.net> wrote:

>

>>

>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:07 PM, David Sanson wrote:

>>

>> > I assume MMD composer offers a built-in way to do this, but I'm not a

>> user, so I'm not sure.

>>

>> Composer doesn't currently do this directly.  The "standard" MMD approach

>> to generating a PDF is via LaTeX.  The results are high quality, but they

>> can take some tinkering at times.  It also requires a LaTeX installation.

>>

>> Many users are perfectly satisfied with printing their HTML into a PDF.

>>  This is not my approach, but I am working on way to easily integrate this

>> into Composer.

>>

>> In the meantime, Composer integrates well with Marked - a fantastic app

>> for HTML previews, printing, styling, etc.  This is the recommended

>> approach for users who want to print their HTML into a PDF.

>>

>>

>> F-

>>

>>

>> --

>> Fletcher T. Penney

>> fletcher at fletcherpenney.net

>>

>>

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