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obsidian-pdf-exporter

Turn a folder of Obsidian notes into one polished PDF, with wiki links, embeds, callouts, Mermaid and community plugins. Make redline PDFs of the changes between two versions. Runs locally or in CI.

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Documentation: https://spenhouet.com/obsidian-pdf-exporter/

ope turns a folder of an Obsidian vault into one PDF. Every folder becomes a numbered section with a table of contents, a running header and footer, and the Obsidian syntax in the notes is rendered: wiki links, embeds of notes, headings, blocks and images, callouts, highlights, tasks, footnotes, math, Mermaid and Bases. Community plugin syntax from Dataview, Meta Bind, Folder Notes, Block Link Plus, Excalidraw, draw.io and pandoc citations is rendered too. Templates control the look with CSS. It runs on the command line, without Obsidian, so it works in CI.

ope export ./MyVault/Handbook --title "Team handbook" --version 1.2.0

Page 1 of an exported handbook: title, table of contents, a callout, a task list and a table Page 2 of the handbook: a numbered section with a Mermaid flowchart, a callout, a table and an embedded note

Each feature page of the docs shows the Markdown next to the rendered PDF.

Install

macOS / Linux

curl -LsSf uvx.sh/obsidian-pdf-exporter/install.sh | sh && ope setup --yes

Windows

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://uvx.sh/obsidian-pdf-exporter/install.ps1 | iex; ope setup --yes"

ope setup installs the native libraries WeasyPrint needs and pandoc. Mermaid diagrams are drawn inside ope, so Node.js and a browser are not needed. See Installation for every OS, uv, pip and CI.

Quick start

ope export ./MyVault/Handbook --title "Team handbook" --version 1.2.0
ope export ./MyVault/Handbook --template ./my-template/
ope redline ./MyVault/Handbook --from-commit v1.1.0 --to-commit HEAD
ope --help

Redline: see every change in the PDF

ope redline turns two git commits of a folder into a tracked-changes PDF: inserted text underlined in blue, removed text struck through in red, moved text in purple and a change bar in the margin, in the layout of the real document. A change summary lists every changed section. The side-by-side style shows the old and the new document in two aligned columns, -O redline.collapse=on shows only the changes, and --blame adds the author, date and commit message of every changed block next to the page. It is made for reviews, approvals, audits and release notes of documents kept in git.

ope redline ./Policy --from-commit v1.0.0 --to-commit v1.1.0

The same policy before and after a change, and the redline PDF with inserted, removed and changed text and change bars

Tags, branches, commit hashes and HEAD~n work as versions, two folders or notes on disk can be compared without git (--from-path), and the docs have GitHub Actions workflows that attach a redline to every pull request or release. See Redline.

Documentation

Topic Link
Install on every OS, quick start Getting started
Every command, flag, -O option, env var and exit code CLI reference
Markdown: tables, code, footnotes, math Markdown
Obsidian syntax: wiki links, embeds, callouts, Mermaid Obsidian
Dataview, Meta Bind, Excalidraw, draw.io, writing a plugin Plugins
Tracked-changes PDFs: usage, comparing versions, CI, what changes look like Redline
Templates, header and footer, CSS classes, recipes Templates and styling
Claude Code plugin, skill, llms.txt Use with AI agents
Development setup, architecture, tests Contributing

Use with AI agents

The repository is a Claude Code plugin marketplace with a skill for ope:

/plugin install obsidian-pdf-exporter --marketplace Spenhouet/obsidian-pdf-exporter

On older Claude Code versions, run /plugin marketplace add Spenhouet/obsidian-pdf-exporter and then /plugin install obsidian-pdf-exporter@obsidian-pdf-exporter. Other agents can read llms.txt.

License

MIT

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