MkDocs Exporter

A highly configurable plugin for MkDocs that exports your pages as PDF documents.
Additionally, it can combine your entire documentation into a single PDF file.

• Documentation
• PyPI
• Examples

Features

• 🚀 Fast - All PDF documents are generated concurrently!
• 🎨 Customizable - full control over the resulting documents
  • Combine all your pages into a single PDF document
  • Create cover pages
  • Define custom scripts and stylesheets to customize your PDF documents
  • Add buttons to the top of your pages (example)
  • Compatible with material and readthedocs themes
    • Check out sample PDF documents here
• ⭐ Powerful - it uses a headless browser and some awesome libraries under the hood to generate PDF documents
  • Playwright to automate browsers
  • Paged.js polyfills included (provide Paged Media and Generated Content CSS modules)
  • Sass support included for your stylesheets

Prerequisites

• Python >= 3.9
• MkDocs >= 1.4

Installation

The plugin is hosted on PyPI and can be installed via pip (or your favourite package manager):

pip install mkdocs-exporter

Usage

The following configuration excerpt from the mkdocs.yml configuration file used by this documentation should cover the basic functionalities of this plugin:

plugins:
  - exporter:
      formats:
        pdf:
          enabled: !ENV [MKDOCS_EXPORTER_PDF, true]
          concurrency: 8
          stylesheets:
            - resources/stylesheets/pdf.scss
          covers:
            front: resources/templates/covers/front.html.j2
            back: resources/templates/covers/back.html.j2
          aggregator:
            enabled: true
            output: .well-known/site.pdf
            covers: all

Check out a sample PDF generated by this plugin, it includes custom CSS and features cover pages.

Roadmap

• Combine all pages into a single PDF document (✅ released in v6.0.0)
• Create a GitHub action that includes all dependencies to build the documentation and generate PDF documents

Feel free to request additional features by submitting an issue or contributing through a pull request.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community to enhance MkDocs Exporter.
Whether you want to report a bug, suggest a feature, improve the documentation, or contribute code, your help is appreciated!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License (MIT), which you can read here.