How to Turn Markdown Into a PDF That Looks Like a Real Document
Markdown has no page size, no margins and no page breaks, which is why exported PDFs clip code, cut off tables and strand headings — here is the fix for each failure.
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Markdown has no page size, no margins and no page breaks, which is why exported PDFs clip code, cut off tables and strand headings — here is the fix for each failure.
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