How to convert markdown to PDF offline with Pandoc Converter

In this post, we will see how to convert a markdown app to a pdf file with the Pandoc conversion tool.

Pandoc is an open-source document conversion tool that is used to convert files from one markup format to another.

Pandoc is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Using Pandoc, we can convert a markdown file into pdf, Docx, HTML, and many other formats. More details https://pandoc.org/index.html

Here, we will just convert a markdown file to pdf and even see how we can merge two markdown files together.

Convert markdown to PDF with Pandoc

To convert a markdown file (post.md) to a PDF document, we will use the following command

pandoc -s -o document.pdf post.md

So, this command will generate a PDF document named document.pdf as an output.

We can also use pandoc to merge files too. Suppose we have two markdown files: article1.md and article2.md.

So to convert it into one pdf document, we will use the command:

pandoc -s -o document.pdf article1.md article2.md

Pandoc will merge and generate the document.pdf as the output in your directory.

So this is a very easy way to convert a markdown document to pdf offline using the command line in your windows, macOS, and Linux operating system.