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vision/lowdown.md

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+---
+title: "Markdown to PDF"
+tags: [ "Documentation", "Markdown", "PDF", "Vision" ]
+---
+
+Turn a markdown file into a pdf:
+
+```bash
+lowdown -stms "$FILE".md | pdfroff -itk -mspdf > "$FILE".pdf
+```
+
+To give the document a title, put that title in the metadata:
+
+```bash
+sed -i "1 i---" "$FILE".md
+sed -i "1 ititle: $TITLE" "$FILE".md
+sed -i "1 i---" "$FILE".md
+lowdown -L "$FILE".md
+lowdown -X title "$FILE".md
+lowdown -stms "$FILE".md | pdfroff -itk -mspdf > "$FILE".pdf
+```