Merge pull request #905 from jpphilips/markdown-to-pdf

Markdown to pdf

Author: pawangeek

markdown_to_pdf/README.md

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+# Markdown to pdf
+
+Convert markdown file or files to pdfs
+
+## Setup instructions
+```
+python -r requirements.txt
+```
+- call the script and pass the name or names of the markdown files
+```
+python markdown_to_pdf.py sample1.md sample2.md sample3.md
+```
+## Output
+
+will create equivalent pdf files of the markdown files
+
+## Author
+[JPPhilips](https://www.github.com/jpphilips)
+
+
+## Disclaimers, if any
+
+if not installed, need to:
+- download and install wkhtmltopdf
+- Set download folder path in PATH Environment variables.

markdown_to_pdf/markdown_to_pdf.py

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+import markdown
+import pdfkit
+import sys
+
+args = sys.argv[1:]  # get command line *args
+assert args, "No file/dir was provided"  # raise error is no arg is passed
+
+print(args)
+
+html_texts = []
+for arg in args:
+    with open(arg, "r", encoding="utf-8") as input_file:
+        text = input_file.read()
+
+    html_texts.append(markdown.markdown(text))
+
+# configuring pdfkit to point to our installation of wkhtmltopdf
+config = pdfkit.configuration(
+    wkhtmltopdf=r"C:\\Program Files\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\wkhtmltopdf.exe")
+
+for html_text in enumerate(html_texts):
+    print(html_text[0])
+    filename = args[html_text[0]].split('.')[0]
+    pdfkit.from_string(html_text[1], f'{filename}.pdf', configuration=config)

markdown_to_pdf/requirements.txt

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+Markdown==3.4.1
+pdfkit==1.0.0