.TH PANDOC 1 "November 1, 2006" Linux "User Manuals" .SH NAME markdown2pdf \- converts markdown-formatted text to PDF, using pdflatex .SH SYNOPSIS .B markdown2pdf [ .B -o|--output .I output-file ] [ .I input-file ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I markdown2pdf converts .I input-file (or text from STDIN) from markdown-formatted plain text to PDF, using .I pdflatex. If no output filename is specified, the name of the output file is derived from the input file; thus, for example, if the input file is .IR hello.txt , the output file will be .IR hello.pdf . If the input is read from STDIN and no output filename is specified, the output file will be named .IR stdin.pdf . .SH AUTHOR John MacFarlane .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR pandoc (1), markdown2html (1), html2markdown (1), markdown2latex (1), latex2markdown (1), pdflatex (1)