.TH PANDOC 1 "NOVEMBER 2006" Linux "User Manuals" .SH NAME markdown2pdf \- converts markdown-formatted text to PDF, using pdflatex .SH SYNOPSIS .B markdown2pdf [-o|--output output-file] [input-file] .SH DESCRIPTION .B markdown2pdf converts input-file (or text from STDIN) from markdown-formatted plain text to PDF, using pdflatex. The name of the output file is derived from the input file, if it is not specified; thus, for example, if the input file is 'hello.txt', the output file will be 'hello.pdf'. If the input is read from STDIN, the output file will be named 'stdin.pdf'. .SH AUTHOR John MacFarlane .SH "SEE ALSO" pandoc (1), markdown2html (1), html2markdown (1), markdown2latex (1), latex2markdown (1)