My Bookmaker  

My Bookmaker is a Maven plugin for producing formatted PDFs from Markdown and other sources. To generate some PDFs, simply use the following command in a directory that contains Markdown files:

mvn my.bookmaker:make:book

Despite being a Maven plugin, My Bookmaker does not require a pom.xml file.

Here is how it works in a nutshell:

• Configuration happens either via a YAML file or by convention:
  • If a file called book.yml exists then the configuration will be sourced from that file. Typically, a single final output PDF is produced.
  • If no YAML configuration file exists, all Markdown files in the current directory will be converted to individual PDFs. CSS files will be collected and applied together.
• Markdown is converted into HTML using the CommonMark Java library (see Processor):
  • CSS content is pasted into the <head><style> section of the final HTML document.
  • The Styler will also append some additional boilerplate CSS for setting the page size and managing section counters.
• Styled HTML is converted to PDF using the Flying Saucer XHTML/CSS renderer with the (discontinued) flying-saucer-pdf-itext5 back-end (based on iTextPDF 5.5; see Renderer).