gene heskett wrote: > On 2/1/24 12:24, Dan Ritter wrote: > > gene heskett wrote: > > pandoc -f markdown FILEIN.md -t pdf -o FILEOUT.pdf > > > > will turn markdown into PDF, which you can probably print, if by > > no other means than FTP to the printer itself. (Try it, Brothers > > come with this by default.) > > > > Thanks DSR. > > Scanning thru the docs I don't see anything that looks like what the print > job shops of the last century called a "binding ditch". That is where the > output file has say a 15mm blank space inserted on the left edge of odd > numbered pages, while that same 15mm of blank space is inserted to the right > of the text on even pages, leave a blank area to perfect bind the duplex > pages w/o burying the text into the center crack of the opened pages. Have > they adopted a new name for this?
Printers (the people) still call it that. You will also want to install latex ( apt install texlive-extra-utils will get you what you need) pandoc options: -V geometry:margin=1in (all four sides) -V geometry:left=3cm,right=3cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm (separate values for each side) and finally, what you probably want: -V geometry:twoside,left=15mm,right=30mm,top=2cm,bottom=3cm I just tested that and it did a pretty nice job. My actual command: pandoc -f markdown -t pdf -V geometry:twoside,left=15mm,right=30mm,top=2cm,bottom=3cm test.md -o foo.pdf -dsr-
