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Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc based on Asciidoctor

79 points by adulau 9y ago

jeremy2017 9y ago
nice pdf converter! recommendation for those who want to get javascript obfuscator @ http://javascript-obfuscator.org/ http://javascript-obfuscator.org/
vog 9y ago
We had very good results with Asciidoctor and Asciidoctor PDF for reports and especially for manuals. In Asciidoctor PDF, we occationally ran into minor issues, but most of the time we pleasantly found out these vanished in the latest version, because other already found and fixed those. There are some limitations, though, such as missing support for footnotes, nevertheless that's a topic that is worked on. In general, we are very satisfied with the AsciiDoc format and the Asciidoctor tools, the syntax is much clearner and evolved in a much saner way than the alternatives (e.g. Markdown).
- arnon 9y ago
  We like the improved table syntax in asciidoc over the alternative markdown formats...
orloffm 9y ago
It had the issue with inline images not working, and the author hasn't been fixing it for a year or two. Plus, there is no support for hyphenation. Otherwise a great tool.
- walterbell 9y ago
  Do you recommend a better Asciidoc to PDF tool chain without those limitations?
torgoguys 9y ago
Anybody aware of a good tool that does the reverse (PDF to some nicely editable format)? I don't care to maintain the page based layout. I've tried some tools many years ago and the results weren't so good. I realize that due to how PDFs can be structured you can't ever expect such a tool to always be able to give perfect results.
- noureddin 9y ago
  `pdftotext` extracts the text from pdfs. At least it worked fine with me.
jonathonf 9y ago
Marginally related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12837454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12837454 In-browser, zero-config, JS-based Asciidoc renderer.
type0 9y ago
This is such a nice tool (as is Asciidoc/asciidoctor itself), I wish more people would use it and contribute to it's code to iron out the remaining bugs. Before I found out about it I used Markdown, but it's syntactic inconsistencies and lack of standards were always making me cringe. I just wish there were other easy to use GUIs besides AsciidocFX.

79 points by adulau 9y ago

jeremy2017 9y ago

nice pdf converter! recommendation for those who want to get javascript obfuscator @ http://javascript-obfuscator.org/ http://javascript-obfuscator.org/

vog 9y ago

We had very good results with Asciidoctor and Asciidoctor PDF for reports and especially for manuals. In Asciidoctor PDF, we occationally ran into minor issues, but most of the time we pleasantly found out these vanished in the latest version, because other already found and fixed those. There are some limitations, though, such as missing support for footnotes, nevertheless that's a topic that is worked on. In general, we are very satisfied with the AsciiDoc format and the Asciidoctor tools, the syntax is much clearner and evolved in a much saner way than the alternatives (e.g. Markdown).

arnon 9y ago
We like the improved table syntax in asciidoc over the alternative markdown formats...

orloffm 9y ago

It had the issue with inline images not working, and the author hasn't been fixing it for a year or two. Plus, there is no support for hyphenation. Otherwise a great tool.

walterbell 9y ago
Do you recommend a better Asciidoc to PDF tool chain without those limitations?

torgoguys 9y ago

Anybody aware of a good tool that does the reverse (PDF to some nicely editable format)? I don't care to maintain the page based layout. I've tried some tools many years ago and the results weren't so good. I realize that due to how PDFs can be structured you can't ever expect such a tool to always be able to give perfect results.

noureddin 9y ago
`pdftotext` extracts the text from pdfs. At least it worked fine with me.

jonathonf 9y ago

Marginally related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12837454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12837454 In-browser, zero-config, JS-based Asciidoc renderer.

type0 9y ago

This is such a nice tool (as is Asciidoc/asciidoctor itself), I wish more people would use it and contribute to it's code to iron out the remaining bugs. Before I found out about it I used Markdown, but it's syntactic inconsistencies and lack of standards were always making me cringe. I just wish there were other easy to use GUIs besides AsciidocFX.