Grunt plugin to convert markdown documents to PDF

Thin wrapper around markdown-pdf.

The PDF looks great because it is styled by HTML5 Boilerplate. What? - Yes! Your Markdown is first converted to HTML, then pushed into the HTML5 Boilerplate index.html. Phantomjs renders the page and saves it to a PDF. You can even customise the style of the PDF by passing an optional path to your CSS and you can pre-process your markdown file before it is converted to a PDF by passing in a pre-processing function, for templating.

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-markdown-pdf --save-dev

One the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-markdown-pdf');

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named markdownpdf to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  markdownpdf: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  }
});

Type: String Default value: Path provided by phantomjs module

Path to phantom binary

Type: Boolean Default value: false

If set to true, a single PDF will be created containing the contents of all of the Markdown files.

Type: String Default value: node_modules/markdown-pdf/pdf.css

Path to custom CSS file, relative to the current working directory.

Type: String Default value: A4

'A3', 'A4', 'A5', 'Legal', 'Letter' or 'Tabloid'

Type: String Default value: portrait

'portrait' or 'landscape'

Type: String Default value: 1cm

Supported dimension units are: 'mm', 'cm', 'in', 'px'

Type: Number Default value: 1000

Delay in millis before rendering the PDF (give HTML and CSS a chance to load)

Type: Function Default value: function () { return through() }

A function that returns a through stream that transforms the markdown before it is converted to HTML.

Type: Function Default value: function () { return through() }

A function that returns a through stream that transforms the HTML before it is converted to markdown.

In this example, the default options are used to convert all markdown files in the directory src/ to PDFs in the directory dest/.

grunt.initConfig({
  markdownpdf: {
    options: {},
    files: {
      src: "src/*.md",
      dest: "dest"
    }
  }
})

In this example we use a through stream called split to split the markdown file into lines and replace foo with bar.

var split = require("split")

grunt.initConfig({
  markdownpdf: {
    dist: {
      options: {
        preProcessMd: function () {
          return split(function (line) {
            return line.replace("foo", "bar") + "\n"
          })
        }
      },
      src: "document.md",
      dest: "dist/"
    }
  }
})

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

• 2013-12-27   v2.0.0   Use updated (streaming) markdown-pdf module and implement concat files properly
• 2013-09-04   v1.0.0   Use updated markdown-pdf module - CSS path is now relative to current working directory
• 2013-06-14   v0.3.0   Use marked module for better markdown compatibility and performance
• 2013-05-30   v0.2.0   Allow concatenation of multiple source files to produce a single PDF
• 2013-05-19   v0.1.0   Callback hooks allowing markdown (and html) content to be pre-processed
• 2013-05-19   v0.0.0   Initial release