MkDocs PDF Export Plugin

The plugin is based on https://github.com/zhaoterryy/mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin/ ,the main change is use pandoc to convert doc to PDFs which support PDF navigation, another change is add a download icon on the page

An MkDocs plugin to export content pages as PDF files

The plugin will export all markdown pages in your MkDocs repository as PDF files using pandoc. The exported documents support many advanced features missing in most other PDF exports, such as PDF navigation, PDF pagenum.

Requirements

1. This package requires MkDocs version 1.0 or higher (0.17 works as well)
2. Python 3.4 or higher
3. pandoc, xelatex(to support Chinese)

   sudo apt install pandoc
   sudo apt install texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-xetex
   

Installation

Install the package with pip:

pip install mkdocs-mk2pdf-plugin

Enable the plugin in your mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
    - search
    - mk2pdf-export

Note: If you have no plugins entry in your config file yet, you'll likely also want to add the search plugin. MkDocs enables it by default if there is no plugins entry set, but now you have to enable it explicitly.

More information about plugins in the [MkDocs documentation][mkdocs-plugins].

Testing

When building your repository with mkdocs build, you should now see the following message at the end of your build output:

Converting 17 files to PDF took 15.6s

In your site_dir you should now have a PDF file for every markdown page.

Options

You may customize the plugin by passing options in mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
    - mk2pdf-export:
        enabled_if_env: ENABLE_PDF_EXPORT

enabled_if_env

Setting this option will enable the build only if there is an environment variable set to 1. This is useful to disable building the PDF files during development, since it can take a long time to export all files. Default is not set.

combined

Setting this to true will combine all pages into a single PDF file. All download links will point to this file. Default is false.

combined_output_path

This option allows you to use a different destination for the combined PDF file. Has no effect when combined is set to false. Default is pdf/combined.pdf.

pandoc_template

This option allows you to use a custom pandoc template to convert markdown file to pdf files.

mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
    - mk2pdf-export:

project-root
├── docs
├── mkdocs.yml
├── site
.
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Contributing

From reporting a bug to submitting a pull request: every contribution is appreciated and welcome. Report bugs, ask questions and request features using [Github issues][github-issues]. If you want to contribute to the code of this project, please read the [Contribution Guidelines][contributing].

Special thanks

Special thanks go to [Lukas Geiter][lukasgeiter] for developing the [mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin][awesome-pages-plugin] which was used as a base and for convincing [Stephan Hauser][shauser] to write a plugin for this.