Liepress

A Rust implementation of a Markdown to PDF/SVG/PNG document generator with CSS styling support.

Features

• Markdown to PDF / SVG / PNG — Convert Markdown documents into multiple output formats
• CSS Styling — Full CSS selector and property support via built-in stylesheet, external CSS files, or inline <style> tags in Markdown
• GFM Support — GitHub Flavored Markdown including tables, task lists, strikethrough, code blocks with language tags
• Auto Font Detection — Automatically detects document language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Latin) and recommends matching fonts
• Page Layout — A4 default, configurable page size/margins via @page CSS rules, auto pagination with widow/orphan control
• Header & Footer — Configurable page headers (with separator line) and footers with page number templates {page} / {total}
• Hyperlinks — Clickable links in PDF output, works across line breaks
• Tables — Column-width auto-sizing, cross-page splitting, header/alternate row styling
• Images — Auto-scaling, alt text captions, PNG/JPEG/GIF/WebP support
• Code Blocks — Monospace font, gray background, cross-page support

Quick Start

CLI

# Convert to PDF (default)
liepress -i document.md -o document.pdf

# Convert to SVG or PNG
liepress -i document.md -o document.svg -f svg
liepress -i document.md -o document.png -f png

# Apply custom CSS stylesheet
liepress -i document.md -o document.pdf -s style.css

# Customize header and footer
liepress -i input.md -o output.pdf --header "Project Report"
liepress -i input.md -o output.pdf --footer "Page {page} / {total}"

# Remove default page number
liepress -i input.md -o output.pdf --no-page-number

# Custom page size and margins
liepress -i input.md -o output.pdf -p A5 --margin 24pt

# Strict CSS parsing (fail on errors)
liepress -i input.md -o output.pdf -S

Rust API

use liepress::{markdown_to_pdf_with_options, ConvertOptions};

let md = "# Hello\n\nThis is a **Markdown** document.";

let pdf = markdown_to_pdf_with_options(
    md,
    &ConvertOptions::new()
        .with_font_family(&["Noto Sans CJK SC", "sans-serif"])
        .with_css("h1 { color: #c00; }")
        .with_header("My Document")
        .with_footer("- {page} -"),
)?;

CSS in Markdown

<style>
body { font-family: "Noto Sans CJK SC", serif; }
h1 { color: #c00; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }
@page {
    margin: 36pt 54pt;
    header: "Project Report";
    footer: "Page {page} / {total}";
}
</style>

# Title

Document content here...

Installation

cargo install liepress

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/zzzdong/liepress.git
cd liepress
cargo build --release
./target/release/liepress -i input.md -o output.pdf

Documentation

• Design Document — Architecture, module design, and development guide
• liepress --help — CLI usage and all available options

License

Licensed under either of:

• MIT license
• Apache License, Version 2.0

at your option.