I just released the first version of my new Markdown-to-PDF converter, pfft. It runs on Linux, at least as far back as Ubuntu 18.04.
Why yet another converter when pandoc and many others already do the job? Size. Pandoc uses TeX to generate PDFs. All the other converters I found use a Web browser in one way or another to make the PDF. Pandoc is 50 MB by itself, not counting TeX! In less than 1.2 MB (a 5.25″ floppy 😉 ) and a single file, pfft will do the job.
Of course, there is a catch: pfft uses Pango and Cairo to make the PDFs. Those have their own dependencies, but are installed on many Ubuntu systems by default! So pfft itself does not add to the dependency load those systems already carry.
(By the way, I use and appreciate both TeX and Pandoc. They are great tools! …
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