Simple and highly customizable markdown to PDF conversion library

Note: Version 0.2.x has been released! Check out the changelog to see what's new!

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Installation Guide

The repository is hosted on Maven Central. You can add it to your project using the following code based on your build tool:

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.woojiahao</groupId>
  <artifactId>kMD2PDF</artifactId>
  <version>0.2.2</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

implementation 'com.github.woojiahao:kMD2PDF:0.2.2'

If you encounter errors with loading the library, visit the troubleshooting guide here.

Quick Start Guide

All examples are taken from the examples repository.

val document 
  get() = MarkdownDocument("resources/markdown-all-in-one.md")

Default styling

Example here.

fun main() {
  val converter = markdownConverter {
    document(document)
  }
  converter.convert()
}

Specifying PDF location

Example here.

fun main() {
  val converter = markdownConverter {
    document(document)
    targetLocation("${System.getProperty("user.home")}/Desktop/exported.pdf")
  }
  converter.convert()
}

Conversion success

Example here.

fun main() {
  val converter = markdownConverter {
    document(document)
  }
  val conversionResult = converter.convert()
  conversionResult.success {
    if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) Desktop.getDesktop().open(it)
  }
}

Conversion failure

Example here.

fun main() {
  val converter = markdownConverter {
    document(document)
  }
  val conversionStatus = converter.convert()
  conversionStatus.failure {
    if (it is FileNotFoundException) println("File is currently already open")
  }
}

Custom styling using style DSL

Example here.

More on this subject can be found on the documentation site here.

fun main() {
  val converter = markdownConverter {
    document(document)

    settings {
      fontSize = 16.0.px
      font = FontFamily("Roboto", "Lato")
      monospaceFont = FontFamily("Fira Code")
    }

    style {
      p {
        textColor = c("455A64")
      }

      ul {
        listStyleType = SQUARE
      }

      selector("tr:nth-child(even)") {
        "background-color" to "#f2f2f2"
      }
    }
  }
  converter.convert()
}

Exporting to HTML

Example here.

More on the subject here.

fun main() {
  val converter = markdownConverter {
    document(document)
    conversionTarget(MarkdownConverter.ConversionTarget.HTML)
  }
  converter.convert()
}

Previews

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