We started a new open source project: markdown2document

So it was the second time when we had to turn markdown content to pdf in a project... so I simply extracted the relevant code, then I only had to put it into a shape so that it can be used in many ways.

Currently you can:

• add markdown content/files (even as a link)
• add style (css as link or text)
• generate pdf
• generate html

Please check it here:

floppylab / markdown2document

turn markdown files to a PDF or HTML document

Upcoming stuff:

• use as a command line tool
• publish in maven central

All contributions are welcome :)

Comments

[Oleg Aleksandrov]

Hi, it's alway cool to see new open source projects on java. Thanks)

[Ryan Collins]

How does this compare to Pandoc?

[Taimoor Sattar]

Great. A handy tool to convert markdown to PDF and HTML as Java open source project. I also wrote to get started guide for markdown.

[Leonora Der]

Nice tutorial! You could extend it with the topic of different markdown flavors :)

[Slim Coder]

Great project ,
I also created a markdown converted 😻🥳
check md2urdu converter : github.com/Techistan/md2urdu

[Leonora Der]

looking great! :) although I do not speak Urdu, it seems an interesting idea to translate files to another language :)

[Slim Coder]

Yeah! i would like to extend this idea. maybe i will add support for different languages also , and it is vscode extension you can simplay install it by searching md2urdu .

[bravemaster619]

I have two questions:

1. The sample md link in App.java seems not working.
2. How will be command line like? Can you show me its format and switches?

[Leonora Der]

1. Oh yes, thanks for the heads up, I have recently made some structural changes on our website and I forgot to update that... I will soon update that :)
2. I pushed an initial version of it like an hour ago and added documentation here: github.com/floppylab/markdown2docu... You are free to modify it, it is really a version #0 of this feature. :)

[Leonora Der]

I have just edited readme. :) New location of the files: floppylab.com/resources/markdown2d...

Anyway, what are your plans on contribution? Feel free to open an issue :)

[捏造的信仰]

People of Java communitiy have been waiting so long for this!

[William Wallace]

This is a great idea. I've had to use a combo of Apache Velocity and iPDF in the past to accomplish this. Looking forward to checking this out

[bravemaster619]

Hi, which Java version should I use to contribute? :)

[Leonora Der]

Hi, it's built on top of Java 8 :)

[Raymond]

I have a feeling that this is going to be real neat project. I've seen software like this, and it usually ends up looking really good