How to convert HTML to PDF using pandoc?

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Chris Stryczynski picture Chris Stryczynski · May 25, 2017 · Viewed 17.7k times · Source

Which libraries do I need? Which command line parameters do I need to pass?

I've installed wkhtml2pdf and I've tried to run:

pandoc reports/7/report.html -t pdf -o reports/7/report.pdf

Which reports an error of:

To create a pdf with pandoc, use the latex or beamer writer and specify
an output file with .pdf extension (pandoc -t latex -o filename.pdf).

Answer

scoa picture scoa · May 25, 2017

pdf is not a valid output format. latex and beamer (for latex slideshows) are.

To create a pdf, use -t latex and -o myoutput.pdf. You can omit the -t argument since a .pdf in -o defaults to latex. So you can use either:

pandoc reports/7/report.html -t latex -o reports/7/report.pdf

or:

pandoc reports/7/report.html -o reports/7/report.pdf

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