#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
md2pdf
converts markdown file to PDF using a given CSS style sheet
usage:
Outputs a PDF file, using the given CSS style sheet
> md2pdf input.md --css input.css
"""
import markdown
import codecs
from subprocess import call
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='converts markdown file to PDF using a given CSS style sheet')
parser.add_argument('mdsource')
parser.add_argument('--css', dest="css")
args = parser.parse_args()
filename = args.mdsource.split('.')[0]
if args.css:
head = """
""" % args.css
else:
head = """
"""
# convert the markdown file to html
mdsourcef = codecs.open(args.mdsource, mode="r", encoding="utf8")
body = markdown.markdown(mdsourcef.read(),['def_list'])
html = ''.join([head, body])
output_file = codecs.open("%s.html" % filename, "w", encoding="utf8")
output_file.write(html)
print ">>> first writing out %s.html" % filename
print ">>> calling wkthmltopdf"
call(["wkhtmltopdf", "%s.html" % filename, "%s.pdf" % filename])