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The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without

by drew-y 11y ago

The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright https://github.com/dvcrn/markright

erusev 11y ago
We are working on PDF export - it's possible that it will be a part of the 1.0.
- bradgessler 11y ago
  Any plans for front matter support?
127001brewer 11y ago
Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE (https://atom.io/ https://atom.io/) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.
- drew-y 11y ago
  I use "Markdown Preview" as well. I couldn't get "Markdown to PDF" to properly apply the styling though.
stdbrouw 11y ago
It'd be nice to have it be part of the editor, but `pandoc document.md -o document.pdf` does the trick. http://pandoc.org/getting-started.html http://pandoc.org/getting-started.html
- biggest_lou 11y ago
  That's fine for a single document, but definitely doesn't work for an entire directory structure worth of Markdown files
  - stdbrouw 11y ago
    Are you serious? Try `ls *.md | xargs -I {} pandoc {} -o {}.pdf`
stronglikedan 11y ago
Not open source or free ($14.95), but MarkdownPad Pro[0] has a PDF export feature. [0] https://markdownpad.com/buy.html https://markdownpad.com/buy.html
srpeck 11y ago
GitHub Flavored Markdown editor with PDF export: https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned The editor happens to fit in an HTML file <9k (excluding the behemoth browser...:).
fnordsensei 11y ago
I use Ulysses (http://www.ulyssesapp.com/ http://www.ulyssesapp.com/) but then again, it's mostly for straight up text writing. As far as I know, it doesn't support code highlighting.
thearn4 11y ago
Interesting - is the idea behind free markdown desktop editing with PDF export to basically replace traditional document editors like Word or Open/Libre Office? I'm used to thinking about markdown as just a tool for lazy people (like me) to get basic HTML formatting. Particularly for Github READMEs, and the like. LaTeX is the document preparation system that I really use (largely because of publication expectations, but I'm also pretty comfy with it at this point). The learning curve is steep.
- drew-y 11y ago
  For me markdown is easier and quicker to use than WYSISWYG editors. Combined with styling from CSS you can make some really nice looking documents from it. If I where able to export to pdf I'd definitely use it instead of word.

by drew-y 11y ago

erusev 11y ago

We are working on PDF export - it's possible that it will be a part of the 1.0.

bradgessler 11y ago
Any plans for front matter support?

127001brewer 11y ago

Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE (https://atom.io/ https://atom.io/) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.

drew-y 11y ago
I use "Markdown Preview" as well. I couldn't get "Markdown to PDF" to properly apply the styling though.

stdbrouw 11y ago

It'd be nice to have it be part of the editor, but `pandoc document.md -o document.pdf` does the trick. http://pandoc.org/getting-started.html http://pandoc.org/getting-started.html

biggest_lou 11y ago
That's fine for a single document, but definitely doesn't work for an entire directory structure worth of Markdown files
- stdbrouw 11y ago
  Are you serious? Try `ls *.md | xargs -I {} pandoc {} -o {}.pdf`

stronglikedan 11y ago

Not open source or free ($14.95), but MarkdownPad Pro[0] has a PDF export feature. [0] https://markdownpad.com/buy.html https://markdownpad.com/buy.html

srpeck 11y ago

GitHub Flavored Markdown editor with PDF export: https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned The editor happens to fit in an HTML file <9k (excluding the behemoth browser...:).

fnordsensei 11y ago

I use Ulysses (http://www.ulyssesapp.com/ http://www.ulyssesapp.com/) but then again, it's mostly for straight up text writing. As far as I know, it doesn't support code highlighting.

thearn4 11y ago

Interesting - is the idea behind free markdown desktop editing with PDF export to basically replace traditional document editors like Word or Open/Libre Office? I'm used to thinking about markdown as just a tool for lazy people (like me) to get basic HTML formatting. Particularly for Github READMEs, and the like. LaTeX is the document preparation system that I really use (largely because of publication expectations, but I'm also pretty comfy with it at this point). The learning curve is steep.

drew-y 11y ago
For me markdown is easier and quicker to use than WYSISWYG editors. Combined with styling from CSS you can make some really nice looking documents from it. If I where able to export to pdf I'd definitely use it instead of word.