I'm looking for someone with the right time and motivation to maintain Transmuter. If you are interested, please reach out at me [at] kalbas.it

Transmuter is a command line tool to convert Markdown and Textile files into HTML or PDF, or HTML files to PDF.

It uses pygments.rb, PDFkit, Redcarpet, and RedCloth.

1. Install the Transmuter gem if you haven't already:

   $ gem install transmuter

2. Transmuter uses pygments.rb, which requires Pygments. You can install Pygments using the Python Easy_Install tool. After installing Easy_Install, you can install Pygments as a Python egg:

   $ sudo easy_install pygments

   Pygments is also part of the Debian and Gentoo Linux distributions, and you can install it via the regular package managers. For example, in Ubuntu:

   $ sudo aptitude install python-pygments

   You can also install it from source.

3. Transmuter also uses PDFkit, which requires WKHTMLTOPDF. The PDFKit project on GitHub has excellent installation instructions for WKHTMLTOPDF.

You can check the help facility:

$ transmute --help

Generate PDF from a Markdown file with the default CSS:

$ transmute file.md

Generate HTML from a Markdown file with the default CSS:

$ transmute file.md -t html

Generate HTML from a Markdown file with custom CSS:

$ transmute file.md -t html -s custom.css

Generate HTML from a Markdown file with several custom CSS files specified by separating the file names with spaces:

$ transmute file.md -t html -s custom1.css custom2.css

For bugs and feature request, please use Github issues, for other requests, you can contact me by email.

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Copyright (c) 2014 Wael Nasreddine <[email protected]>

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