I’ve been using Quillnote for a long time now and this is a feature I’ve been sorely missing, are there other apps that can help me do the conversion?

  • donio@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    I use pandoc:
    pandoc input.md -o out.pdf

    It can use LaTeX or pdfroff for the PDF generation as well as some other backends that I haven’t tried yet. The --pdf-engine flag lets you choose between them.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh, so there are some available engines on Termux? I had tried just what you did and not specifying the engine would result in an error of missing pdflatex, could you give me the whole command please? Or the packages I need to install first

      • donio@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I must admit that I didn’t realize that we were on c/F-Droid :) But I just gave it a go in termux and got it working there too:

        apt install pandoc groff ghostscript
pandoc in.md -o out.pdf --pdf-engine=pdfroff
    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      That works wonderfully, thank you so much!
      This was driving me insane, I had even tried pandoc but kept getting the error of missing pdflatex

    • paradox2011@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Interesting, I always head over to my desktop to export to PDF. That’s nice to know there’s an android option.

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Does Quillpad not have that ability?

    Obsidian can export to PDF from the desktop version, but I’m not seeing it on Android at least.

    Honorable mention goes to Notesnook. It’s not actually markdown, but has formatting shortcuts that work like md in the app. It can export to PDF.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t switched to Quillpad because I didn’t see any remarkable changes from the original Quillnote, it seems like development has stalled over there too, unfortunately.
      I have tried it out now, though and, as far as I can tell, the Export option is still just to make a zip of a JSON file with the text inside, no PDF to be seen.