Is there an "Export to Pdf" plugin for Tiddlywiki?

Has anyone put together a plugin or tool for exporting a Tiddlywiki 开发者_如何学Goto pdf?

No, there isn't.

As a workaround, I write or find a decent printable stylesheet, then print to PDF.

Why not select the target tiddler to "Open in new window", and print it to PDF with any installed PDF printer?

To accomplish this I used a tool to convert HTML to PDF. These steps are a bit long but well worth it. Once you've got it working it is easily repeated.

1. In each tiddler that I want in my PDF, I mark with a specific tag; I used TableOfContents.

2. In each tiddler that is marked with this tag, I added an order field--to be used to define the order of tiddlers to appear in the PDF.

3. Ensure your HTML headers are properly defined for the document. I think tiddler titles use <h2>, so properly defining subheadings using <h3><h4> etc will ensure, if you want, a nice auto-generated Table of Contents in your PDF.

4. If you want each tiddler to start on a new page (in the PDF), we need to add this HTML to the end of each tiddler:

<div style = "display:block; clear:both; page-break-after:always;"></div>

5. With a completed TiddlyWiki document export the tiddlers to a single HTML file--this will be used to generate a PDF document. To export, go to the AdvancedSearch, select the Filter tab. In the search textbox enter your filter criteria--for me that was:

   [tag[TableOfContents]sort[order]]

You'll see, immediately, on-screen a list of the tiddlers the system found based on that criteria. Then click on the Export icon and select Static HTML.

6. Optionally, but I think it's a great idea, manually create a cover page (in your favorite editor)--this will be a single HTML file to act as the cover page in the PDF document; call it cover.html. More on this later.

7. Download and install wkhtmltopdf (command-line tool to generate PDF from an HTML file).

   https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

8. Learn and get familiar with the wkhtmltopdf command line syntax. There are numerous features here so the command you end up with maybe lengthy. Use wkhtmltopdf /? to view general help, then wkhtmltopdf --extended-help to view details (well worth the read).

9. Generate a PDF document. At the command prompt navigate to the folder where your TiddlyWiki document is located. Here is a list of my favorite command-line switches. My app is installed in C:\Program Files..., so my command line starts with that...

"c:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe"

Add this switch for a header on the left:

--header-left "My document title"

For a header on the right:

--header-right "v1.0.0.1"

Font size of header:

--header-font-size 8

Display a line below the header:

--header-line

Spacing between header and content in mm (default 0):

--header-spacing 5

A left-footer ([section] is replaced with the name of the current section:

--footer-left "[section]"

A centered footer:

--footer-center "Page [page] of [topage]"

Footer font size:

--footer-font-size 8

Footer spacing:

--footer-spacing 5

If you want titles to hyperlink (in the PDF) to go back to the TOC:

--enable-toc-back-links

Make sure no background images get printed:

--no-background

I added special styles in the TiddlyWiki document for print media--to hide tags and clean up the spacing. Then I used this switch to ensure print media is used:

--print-media-type

Being in North America I want letter-size pages; I think the default is A4:

-s Letter

IMPORTANT--give the tool access to local files, otherwise your images will be missing in the PDF:

--enable-local-file-access

Use this if you want to have a cover page (see step 6 above):

cover "cover.htm"

And use this if you want a TOC automatically generated. Without a cover page, the TOC will be your first page, so create a cover page:

toc

After the toc identify your exported tiddler HTML file as input to the tool:

tiddlers.html

And, the final argument on the command line is the output PDF file name:

MyDocument.pdf

Export the tid to html. Then in the terminal, issue:

html2pdf $myTid.html $myTid.pdf

$myTid is only a var and can be any name :)