MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
Single Page PDF Export
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Rich Text Format
- Stars
- 9.8k
- Forks
- 1.2k
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
It would be nice if there was an additional PDF export that is single page.
This is the use-case I have:
I prefer to create my documentation in Markdown but many of the people who read my docs do not use Markdown so I need to deliver PDF for their consumption. Most of the time I hate how the page breaks appear at just the wrong spot in the doc. So I find my self creating a really long custom paper size so I have no page break and it comes out as one long document. This probably break printing but that is fine with me as expect most will read doc on computer instead of printing.
Has anyone done work for exporting a single page PDF? Or does someone know a good reason not to do a single page PDF?
In the mean time I am going to start experimenting with it here: https://github.com/yepher/macdown I would appreciate any insight others may have.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or implementation entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating MacDown's existing PDF export workflow, then determine how a single-page export should handle document length and printing; done means producing a readable PDF without page breaks for the described use case.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, markdown, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100