Docx via stream?

[kmctown]

Not sure if this is just me, but I am having trouble converting markdown to docx via pdc.stream. All other formats I've tried work, and md => docx works via the pandoc command line. Running through pdc stream results in a zero-byte file.

Any ideas?

[pvorb]

While the following command line works,

pandoc -f markdown -t docx -o README.docx README.md

the following (which is what pdc does) doesn't work.

cat README.md | pandoc -f markdown -t docx > README.docx

Pandoc will print the following message to stderr.

pandoc.exe: Cannot write docx output to stdout.
Specify an output file using the -o option.

So this won't work with streams, sorry.

The same applies to PDF, which will say:

pandoc.exe: Unknown writer: pdf
To create a pdf with pandoc, use the latex or beamer writer and specify
an output file with .pdf extension (pandoc -t latex -o filename.pdf).

So this is basically an issue with Pandoc itself, since it doesn't support streams for PDF and DOCX.

[pvorb]

It also applies to EPUB and probably all other binary formats.

[pvorb]

Here's a workaround for using DOCX with stdin only:

var fs = require('fs');
var pdc = require('pdc');

var rs = fs.createReadStream('README.md');
var pandoc = pdc.stream('markdown', 'docx', [ '-o', 'README.docx' ]);

rs.pipe(pandoc.stdin);

[kmctown]

Sorry for the delay, meant to close this. Thanks for the update and the workaround.

[zhouseahe]

@pvorb can I use url as input here ? I just want to get an docx file use url . thanks a lot

[pvorb]

@zhouseahe I guess so. Test it and tell us what you found out.

[pvorb]

See #8 for a solution on how to use pdc with URLs.