Converting markdown to pdf with pandoc on linux
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Converting markdown posts to pdf on ubuntu takes a few packages from the standard repos. I had to go through a few stack overflow posts, and nothing seemed...

Date: January 12, 2022

Converting markdown posts to pdf on ubuntu takes a few packages from the
standard repos. I had to go through a few stack overflow posts, and
nothing seemed to have all the fonts and packages that I needed to
convert markdown, but this is what ended up working for me.

## Installing all the packages

``` bash
sudo apt install \
 pandoc \
 texlive-latex-base \
 texlive-fonts-recommended \
 texlive-extra-utils \
 texlive-latex-extra \
 texlive-xetex
```

## Using pandoc to convert markdown to a pdf

``` python
# older versions of pandoc, I needed this one on ubuntu 18.04
pandoc pages/til/convert-markdown-pdf-linux.md -o convert-markdown-pdf.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex
# newer versions of pandoc, I needed this one on ubuntu 21.04
pandoc pages/til/convert-markdown-pdf-linux.md -o convert-markdown-pdf.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex
```

![results of converting this post to a pdf](https://images.waylonwalker.com/convert-markdown-pdf-linux-result.png)

> Here is an image of what converting this article over to a pdf looks
> like. The raw markdown is
> [here](https://waylonwalker.com/convert-markdown-pdf-linux.md "a link to the raw markdown of this post").