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Rendered Markdown can easily be printed (it's HTML after all). It would be great to have the capability of printing directly on the page.

Thank you for the suggestion! I guess that there is some support in GUI framework I use - it should be simple.

i'd try to sponsor this, in part or how much i can... if you have time to get around to it. i'm missing automatic html and pdf export on save to be honest, but at least be able to just click print would be a start. i know i could just do this with inotify and some blood sacrifices but it's just too much...

@FlorianHeigl I'm adding it to current milestone (enhancements for the upcoming release) and will look into this.

What do you mean by "automatic ... export"? If I would add:

• menu File/Export as PDF...
• menu Print...

... will it be sufficient?

@dvorka not OP but I'm assuming that what they meant was that there is always a PDF export somewhere that is "synced on save" automatically

@dvorka sorry for the massive latency. I had seen that @Heliosmaster already got to the essence of it.

So currently my workflow is: write docs in mindforger. If they are useful for someone, I want to give them a proper document including pictures (screenshots) or links.

• I go to notebook->export->save as html
• Then I navigate to the correct path (since it opens in my home)
• Then I need to give a filename, and when updating I can only guess if I hit the same name as last time
• Then the html file gets saved
• Then I navigate to the resulting file via a file browser
• Then I open it in a web browser
• Then I hit print to pdf
• Then I navigate to the same path to make sure the html file and the pdf will be in the same spot
• Then I strip the "html" from the name
• Then I send out the pdf file to them

It sounds pretty sad now that I read it.

saving as html is already included, so that could (maybe) easily be triggered on save. The filename being derived from the notebook should not hurt either. being able to set a path on global or notebook level, or it being in a subfolder of a mindforger repo both would be something one can work with, with more ease.

And since this issue was about printing: if I can hit ctrl-p-enter-enter and just pick it up from there, that is exactly as good as it is in other software. So that would be great.

If there would be a way to do it automatically when someone hits [Save] it would (imo) be really great for creating content without switching context in one's head. (At least in my head creating the pdf file is not done by the same "me" as the self that tries to stay in a writing flow. Hitting '[Save]' doesn't bring up any dialogs, and that's the cool part about it: no need to mentally leave the document. digging for the function in the menus or thinking about paths & remembering filenames completely overloads me) I think about what the document shall contain and look like, and if I could just open the self-updating pdf to verify that would be a different life.

idk if others see it the same way.

Hi Florian,

I use Mindforger 1.54.0 on Windows 11

I've used a number of tools to convert markdown into a pdf:

1. Pandoc
2. Latex
3. MiKTeX

It depends on how many files I need to convert and how quickly it is required. For adhoc conversions I use VsCode and an extension from https://github.com/yzane/vscode-markdown-pdf which I find works quite well.