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Markdown Editor Prototyping HTML To PDF

Typora Landing Page
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Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
WeasyPrint Landing Page
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WeasyPrint

WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I use Weasyprint [1] to generate a PDF from HTML, and I use a static site generator to convert Markdown to HTML. Weasyprint can handle code highlighting e.g. Using Pygments or another static framework, the only downside is it can't execute JS so if you e.g. Want to dynamically generate content to render you need to first pass your HTML through a headless browser, which is also possible though. There's also paged.js [2] which is similar but runs in the browser, so it supports JS-generated content. And as others have mentioned Pandoc [3] is the Swiss army knife of converting between document formats. 1: https://weasyprint.org/.

#HTML To PDF #PDF Conversion API #PDF Tools 29 social mentions
Figma Landing Page

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Figma

Team-based interface design, Figma lets you collaborate on designs in real time.

Hey, I've wrote a few books (https://kerkour.com/books) with only markdown, https://excalidraw.com and https://figma.com I've detailed my complete setup and shared the Dockerfile that I use to convert the markdown into ebooks (EPUB, PDF and Kindle) on my blog: https://kerkour.com/book-self-publishing-pandoc.

#Design Tools #Prototyping #Design Collaboration 101 social mentions
Excalidraw Landing Page
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Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Hey, I've wrote a few books (https://kerkour.com/books) with only markdown, https://excalidraw.com and https://figma.com I've detailed my complete setup and shared the Dockerfile that I use to convert the markdown into ebooks (EPUB, PDF and Kindle) on my blog: https://kerkour.com/book-self-publishing-pandoc.

#Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 206 social mentions