Markdown to PDF using Weasyprint via https://gist.github.com/waylan/3bd88a59f528dc4afae4112d8d21f9ca

md2wpdf.py

import markdown
import re
import yaml
from yaml import SafeLoader
from wp2pdf import html2pdf


BLOCK_RE = re.compile(r'^-{3}[ \t]*\n(.*?\n)(?:\.{3}|-{3})[ \t]*\n', re.UNICODE|re.DOTALL)


def get_data(doc):
    """
    Extract meta-data from a text document.
    Returns a tuple of document and data.
    """
    data = {}
    m = BLOCK_RE.match(doc)
    if m:
        try:
            data = yaml.load(m.group(1), SafeLoader)
            if isinstance(data, dict):
                doc = doc[m.end():].lstrip('\n')
            else:
                data = {}
        except:
            pass
    return doc, data


def md2pdf(input, output):
    with open(input, 'r') as fd:
        doc, data = get_data(fd.read())
    md_opts = data.get('md_opts', {})
    pdf_opts = data.get('pdf_opts', {})
    html = markdown.markdown(doc, **md_opts)
    html2pdf(html, output, **pdf_opts)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    md2pdf('myexample.md', 'md.pdf')

myexample.md

md_opts	pdf_opts
extensions extension_configs attr_list fenced_code codehilite codehilite noclasses true	headers header_styles styles EXAMPLE color: red; h1 { color: darkblue; } .foo { color: orange; }

An example document

This PDF is generated{ .foo } from a Markdown file.

from md2wpdf import md2pdf
md2pdf('example.md', 'md.pdf')

The output looks like this: