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This bash script takes the export of a Notion page and converts to a PDF with a cover page and table of contents
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#!/bin/zsh | |
#### | |
# This script assumes that you have installed https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template and that your input is a markdown file from https://www.notion.so/ | |
# Converting to PDF requires MacTex or equivalent to be installed. | |
# Cover page background is hardcoded to "~/.pandoc/backgrounds/background7.pdf", change it. | |
# Author is hardcoded to "Lisbon Collective", https://lisboncollective.com/ | |
# Usage: ./notion2pdf.sh inputFile.md | |
# Questions: mail@brunoamaral.eu | |
### | |
input=$1 | |
output=${input%".md"}.pdf | |
h1="# " | |
title=$(grep '^# .*$' "$input") | |
title=${title#"$h1"} | |
echo "Add a subtitle?" | |
read subtitle | |
lines=$(grep --line-number '^## .*$' "$1" | cut -d ':' -f1 | head -n1) && lines=$(expr $lines - 1) && tail -n +${lines} "$1" >> tempfile.md | |
pandoc tempfile.md -o "$output" --from markdown --template eisvogel --listings \ | |
--metadata author="Lisbon Collective" \ | |
--metadata title="${title}" \ | |
--metadata date=$(date "+%F") \ | |
--metadata subtitle="${subtitle}" \ | |
--variable titlepage='true' \ | |
--variable titlepage-rule-color="360049" \ | |
--variable toc='true' --variable toc-own-page='true' \ | |
--variable titlepage-background="~/.pandoc/backgrounds/background7.pdf" | |
rm tempfile.md |
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