PDF Exporter

An Obsidian plugin that exports the note you're viewing as a clean, print-ready A4 PDF. I built it to turn CV notes into PDFs without leaving Obsidian.

Features

• Renders the note properly: Markdown, embeds and transclusions are rendered the way Obsidian shows them, and the plugin waits for embeds to load before exporting
• Cleans up the output: frontmatter and %% comments %% are stripped
• Print layout: A4 pages with print styles and sensible heading and section breaks. Put <break> on its own line to start a new page
• True page preview: the preview shows the actual A4 pages, labelled "Page X of N", so you can see exactly where each page splits before saving
• Save straight to PDF: Save PDF opens a save dialog with the note's name already filled in. Print is still there if you want a paper copy
• Ribbon button and a command: Export active note to PDF

Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release, or build the plugin yourself (below).
2. Copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/pdf-exporter/.
3. Enable PDF Exporter under Settings → Community plugins.

Desktop only.

Usage

Open a note and click the file-down ribbon icon, or run PDF Exporter: Export active note to PDF from the command palette. Check the pages in the preview, then click Save PDF (or Print).

Development

npm install
npm run build   # bundles main.ts into main.js with esbuild

Built with TypeScript, the Obsidian plugin API and esbuild.

Credits

Made by Alex Dickinson.

Licence

MIT