Export to pdf about codimd HOT 15 CLOSED

Dear maintainers,

Thanks for this awesome project. Was googling for how to export slides to pdf and end up finding this discussion here. Would like a feature that can do this, but after went through some issue discussion here I understand lots of works are still going on. For anyone want to export slides to pdf, here I offer a workaround for you.

1. Modify the url by appending ?print-pdf after it. For example, change from https://hackmd.io/p/slide-example#/ to https://hackmd.io/p/slide-example?print-pdf. Note that ?print-pdf must be put before #/

2. Select print in the right-click menu. If you only intend to send it as pdf, check the background graphics option and you are in business.

3. If you want to print it and find a dark background too ink costly, you might want to uncheck the background graphics and use a black font color. Open your browser developer console and enter the following command $("h1, h2, p").css("color", "black"), then you are good to print. For example, in Chrome browser and Mac OS you press opt + cmd +j to open the developer console and paste the magic spell.

Cheers,
Chih-Cheng

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Pandoc will export to pdf using it's renderer which is not aware of all the extra components supported by hackmd (eg: mathjax, diagram, google emojis, ... )

Converting the generated html to pdf is the best bet if we want to support all the javascript exotic features. and as a bonus, it will give you the same look/styles that you actually see in hackmd versus a custom renderer which would render with different styles.

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What about pandoc (#48) ;)

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The "?Print-pdf" feature of the slide no longer works properly.
Now, only the first page can be printed, and the second and subsequent pages can not be printed.

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@komikoni Sorry about that. It's an issue of HackMD.io, CE can use ?print-pdf properly.
And we've moved all our EE and HackMD.io issues here:
https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd-io-issues/issues
Please check there.

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Why not using wkhtml2pdf on the generated html ?

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I don't know wkhtml2pdf before, looks good and will give it a try.
But see from the https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues
It has lots of issue not solved.

Anyway, thanks for help!

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Use markdown-pdf right now, not bad.

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Could you add a way to integrate the summary in the pdf export ?

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Hi @vincfleurette,
Could you tell more about "the summary" ?

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What could be nice is adding a PDF export button for something like https://docraptor.com/ for those who are happy to pay for the conversion. PDF generation is always tedious from things like markdown, but as HTML export is already implemented, it could be a simple solution? Example code on their website on how to POST HTML to docraptor, and get back a PDF, which you then offer to the user via download... Just a thought...

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@amlwwalker good point!
I found out how dillinger did their PDF export yesterday, we might be able to do this too.
https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger/blob/b28fd80445ac02739548d99d79ea6490ac4c7d2d/plugins/core/server.js#L109

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Shall we work on this to land the function to export PDF?

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@tigercosmos Pull Requests are welcome :)

In general, we have currently a way to export the documents as PDF on self-hosted instances.

Exporting the Slides as PDF would be another nice feature. If you want to implement that feel free to do so. We would love it!

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I've just noticed the export to PDF works much better in Chrome compared to Firefox!

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04

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