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Lightweight markup languages are not powerful enough to create pdf's suitable for printing. PDF/dead tree is a still a huge platform. Dealing with front/back m

Lightweight markup languages are not powerful enough to create pdf's suitable for printing. PDF/dead tree is a still a huge platform. Dealing with front/back matter is the 20% end of the solution that no one wants to deal with ;( Disclaimer - I've written multiple ebooks (which are relatively easy, though older kindle/mobi7 has quite a few warts), yet still have big demand for print. I've yet to see one source to rule them all. (Personally use rST and tools around it).

scottfr 14y ago
You certainly can create high quality printable PDF's. Check out this example: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/94002/postmortem/docs/EmeryRoe/out/article.pdf https://dl.dropbox.com/u/94002/postmortem/docs/EmeryRoe/out/... This was generated using Markdown run through Pandoc (which the OP is using) which was configured to target a LaTeX template which then converts to a very nicely formatted PDF. The key to moving from Markdown to PDF is to have a nice LaTeX template to format the content generated from Markdown.