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Open-Source PDF Software Capable of Markdown to PDF Conversion

Render Markdown to PDF

10 tools

JavaScript

backslide

Cli

CLI tool that builds HTML slide presentations from Markdown (via Remark.js), with a live-reload dev server, Sass-based custom templates, static-site/self-contained-HTML export, presenter-notes stripping, and PDF export through DeckTape integration.

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JavaScript

Electron-PDF

Cli

CLI tool and Node.js API (built on Electron/Chromium) that converts URLs, HTML files, or Markdown files to PDF or PNG, with custom CSS injection, page size/orientation/margin control, print-background support, custom request headers, and batch/concurrent job handling.

Ruby

Gimli

CliDockerDriver

CLI tool that converts GitHub-Markup-supported markup files (Markdown, Textile, etc., except roff) to PDF via wkhtmltopdf: embeds images (local/relative/remote), CodeRay syntax highlighting with a GitHub theme, custom CSS, Jekyll front-matter stripping, cover-page generation, direct wkhtmltopdf option passthrough (TOC, page numbering), and Docker support.

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Ruby

Kitabu

CliDriver

Ruby framework that converts Markdown (with ERB templating) into PDF (via Prince XML), EPUB, Mobi, and HTML e-books: auto-generated tables of contents from headings, Rouge syntax highlighting, custom @font-face fonts, book-layout stylesheets per format, frontmatter metadata/variables, and pre/post-render content hooks.

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LaTeX

Letter Boilerplate

Library

LaTeX/XeTeX/Pandoc template that generates letter PDFs from a Markdown file with a YAML header (recipient, date, subject); supports custom fonts, sizes, margins, language/hyphenation, an auto-embedded signature image, and an optional custom letterhead PDF background, built via a makefile.

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PHP

markdown-resume

CliDockerDriver

CLI/Docker tool that converts a Markdown resume into a responsive HTML5/CSS3 page and a matching PDF (rendered via wkhtmltopdf), with selectable visual themes and a live-reload watch mode for editing. Also generates word-frequency stats analysis of the resume content, a distinctive extra not found in most other Markdown-to-resume tools in this directory. Outputs a single self-contained HTML file with embedded styles alongside the PDF.

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JavaScript

markdown-resume.js

CliDriver

CLI tool (`md2resume`) that converts a Markdown resume into both a responsive HTML page and a PDF version, rendering the PDF via wkhtmltopdf under the hood. Includes a watch mode for live-reload editing while writing the resume, plus Docker support for running it without a local wkhtmltopdf install. One of several Markdown-to-resume tools in this directory (see also Kitabu, Gimli) built around the same 'write once, get HTML and PDF' workflow.

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Haskell

Pandoc

Cli

Universal document converter between Markdown, HTML, LaTeX/ConTeXt, DOCX/RTF/ODT, EPUB, man/ms roff, DocBook, JATS, TEI, Jupyter notebooks, PowerPoint/reveal.js/Beamer slides, and dozens more formats. Uses external PDF-producing engines (context, latexmk, lualatex, pdflatex, xelatex, wkhtmltopdf, weasyprint, prince, pagedjs-cli, tectonic, pdfroff) to convert into PDF, and preserves metadata, footnotes, tables, math, syntax highlighting, and citations/bibliographies (via CSL) across formats.

PHP

PHPPdf

Cli

Converts XML (or Markdown) documents to PDF or images (JPEG/PNG via GD/Imagick/Gmagick) with HTML-like tags (div, p, table, headings, lists, images, links); supports auto-breakable/fixed pages, multi-column layouts, headers/footers/watermarks, page numbering, metadata, internal/external links, bookmarks, sticky notes, barcodes (via Zend), simple pie charts, borders, backgrounds, rotation/transparency, and stylesheets; usable via web or CLI, with Symfony2 integration.

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Python

PyMuPDF

BindingsLibrary

Python bindings for MuPDF covering text extraction (plain, rich dictionary with font/size/color/bbox, HTML/XML, raw blocks, table-to-Markdown); embedded image extraction and high-DPI page rendering to Pixmaps; Tesseract-based OCR (100+ languages); reading/writing annotations (highlights, notes, stamps, ink) and redactions (with permanent apply); AcroForm reading and filling; page insert/delete/reorder, merge/split, and metadata editing; PDF creation and Markdown-to-PDF conversion; password protection/RC4/AES encryption; hyperlink and cross-reference handling; and outline/bookmark read-write.