Openleaf: Markdown editor for generating PDF

This is a Python based markdown to PDF converter, specially designed for paginated documents. It can be used as a standalone markdown to PDF converter but a minimalist web editor is available.

https://openleaf.herokuapp.com

Markdown to PDF

I did this project for myself because I needed to produce carefully designed reports while remaining productive and focused on the content. PDF is the most popular format for reports and no markdown editor offers a table of contents with page numbers and a header with the current title. I found LaTex old, complicated, not very hackable and heavy to install, that's why I tried to make this project:

Simple and hackable but powerful
Lightweight (but still requires python)

Features

Customizable: preprocessed in Python, designed with HTML and CSS
Predefined, hackable and fully customizable CSS styles
Table of content with page numbers
First page with metadata integration
Header & Footer
Maths and code rendering with KaTex and Pygments
Admonition note blocks
Dynamic replacing (ex: \today is replaced by the current date)
Page break and disable header for specific pages

Getting started

Demo

https://openleaf.herokuapp.com

Standalone backend

git clone https://github.com/werner-duvaud/openleaf-markdown-pdf.git
cd openleaf/backend

python markdown_to_pdf.py --markdown_path my_markdown.md --pdf_path my_pdf.pdf

Local server mode

git clone https://github.com/werner-duvaud/openleaf-markdown-pdf.git

Launch backend:

cd openleaf-markdown-pdf/backend
pip install -r requirements.txt
python backend.py

Launch frontend:

cd openleaf-markdown-pdf/frontend
npm install
ng serve

Navigate to http://localhost:4200

Style

Styles are in pur CSS, they are easily customizable, you can use the default style to get started.

Markdown used to generate the following PDF

Material theme

Markdown | PDF