Please implement important feature, export of notes into PDF. It is beautiful to have private wikipedia, but it is quite useless if I want to share some articles with somebody.
The feature should be capable to print current file into PDF with current CSS settings
Make PDF from combination of articles sharing a hashtag
Select manually articles for printing and make single PDF with option to rearrange articles
Use custom CSS as base for PDF or allow to select online community CSS themes, but use them only for generating PDF
How better to spread the Obsidian for mundane people then share with them Obsidian generate PDF. The first cover page should contain Obsidian logo and name of compilation.
I think this is a pretty crucial feature to have.
I don’t think it needs the ability to rearrange pages and assemble some custom pdf, but it should be able to take a single page and give you a nicely formatted pdf version.
Please don’t brand the output with obsidian logos.
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I needed a pdf version of my page and it’s been a real pain in the butt to generate. I thought this would be supported out of the box (at least being able to print the preview).
I had to install pandoc and the appropriate latex packages which was its own challenge.
And then it turns out that the embedded images markdown that pandoc expects is different that whatever obsidian uses, so I had to break my own version of the page temporarily in order to generate a pdf.
I created an account in the forum just to post about this. Bear does this export to pdf service really well. I prefer Obsidian overall due to the local folders + linking capabilities but I think having this feature in Obisidian would be extremely helpful. I hope it comes soon because I can’t create work reports using Obsidian unless I have this feature.
This feature would be pretty nice to have, especially since it should automatically embed the linked images.
I just used VSCode + extensions for this and while that’s possible I had to change all the links to images within the file which was a bit annoying.
I’m late to the party, but FYI I think the issue of ![[ ... ]] not being vanilla markdown is easily fixed by a pandoc filter. You have full access to the AST so you can do a regex replace to replace these with canonical markdown image links (probably want to check for image extensions, since ![[ ... ]] is also used for transclusion).
Yep, all that may be possible, but it is not practical to have to use workarounds like that, esp. for non-techies. Export to PDF is something that many note-taking apps offer, and not offering it is a serious shortcoming.
Obsidian is still in beta, i.e development, so not offering it at this stage is understandable, but it is a feature that needs to be part of the core features.
Hey sorry, was in bus and didn’t took the time i should’ve.
I think you use WKHTMLTOPDF to export your .md files to .pdf
I wanted to do the same, but after downloading WKHTMLTOPDF for windows it just seems to be once more (like pandoc) to be a tool I can’t use because I am not interested in line-coding.
So I asked, how do you get this goodlooking window? Is it only possible on iOS? Because from the design, I would say it is not windows. And in my WKHTMLTOPDF-Windows version, it seems, I have to use line-commands.
Sorry if this sounds a bit stupid, but I don’t have any knowledge in coding, even custom.css is another language for me. I’m a 100% user. I just saw this easy looking window with Notes to export and Output directory and dreamd of an easy solution for PDF-export without writing one line
Ah OK, it’s clear now.
WKHTMLTOPDF is used by another markdown app I use, and I posted that screenshot as a suggestion for the devs if/when they get around to making an export feature.
The other app is cross-platform: Windows, Linux, macOS. I don’t use it on iOS, I don’t even have an iPhone.
BTW I am like you: a user and a non-coder. I only copy/paste CSS I am interested in, but have no idea how write CSS code
Yes please … I recently kind of stumbled over the current generation of markdown tools/editors, eventually settled with Obsidian, started to work on some docs I’d like to share with non markdown users and completely missed that this is not as easy as expected. Given it’s somehow rendered for the preview already I wonder why we can’t have at least what’s there already in a printable form (and then just print to PDF). Of course it’s limited with regards to links etc. but it’s much more than raw markdown already.
Same. I’ve just recently started using markdown, then found Obsidian and was hooked. But now that I’ve made it the center of all my notes/to-do lists, I’m really missing the print or export to PDF from other tools.
Still, Obsidian is amazing, and I’m sure this feature (or plug-in) will be added soon. I’m happy to use another program for printing for now. So far, the best option I have found is opening/printing the note from my phone using 1Writer.
