The latest articles on DEV Community by Ana Cunha (@anacunha). https://dev.to/anacunha https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F195731%2F35466f74-4705-4682-8dc3-524130bfc09e.jpg https://dev.to/anacunha en Ana Cunha Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:04:43 +0000 https://dev.to/anacunha/from-markdown-to-pdf-29io https://dev.to/anacunha/from-markdown-to-pdf-29io <p>Today I wanted to print a markdown file and found out there was no straightforward way to do it from my code editor. Even though they have beautiful markdown previews, they won't let you print them.</p> <p>That's when I found pandoc. <a href="https://pandoc.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pandoc</a> is a document converter that can turn markdown into PDF. It does this by converting markdown to LaTeX first, then using LaTeX to generate the PDF.</p> <p>I don't miss struggling with <a href="https://www.latex-project.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">LaTeX</a> from my computer science student days, but it always produced beautiful documents (when I didn't mess anything up).</p> <p>Here is the setup on macOS:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>brew <span class="nb">install </span>pandoc brew <span class="nb">install </span>basictex </code></pre> </div> <p>After installing basictex, restart your terminal to get the LaTeX binaries in your path.</p> <p>Then:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>pandoc file.md <span class="nt">-o</span> file.pdf </code></pre> </div> <p>That's it. PDFs from all your Markdown files.</p> learning tutorial cli