Printing Notes

[ariehen]

Obsidian doesn’t have a print option at the moment. The feature request is here:

Add printing capability (Electron has the API)

Use case or problem I’d like to be able to print a note directly from Obsidian. Electron has an API to support this: contents.print Proposed solution Add a print command to the app. Have a way to specify the options that make sense from the Electron API. Assume you need to switch the note into reading mode to do this for you have the contents displayed that the user would want to print, but perhaps you can print from any of the modes what is seen on te screen. Current workaround (option…

You have a few options:

• Copy from Reading view and paste. If that’s acceptable, great!
• export a PDF and print that.
• Use another program (Typora, MarkText, etc.) to open the note and print it from there.
• Pandoc should be fine, but that needs to be installed itself as well as any Obsidian plugins that use it: Pandoc - Installing pandoc (you may have done this).

I could be missing a few.