🔥 DocForge

Forge beautiful PDFs from Markdown and HTML — perfect for LLM-generated documents, presentations, and reports.

Features

• 📝 Convert Markdown to PDF with syntax highlighting
• 🌐 Convert HTML to PDF with full CSS support
• 🎨 9 built-in styles: minimal, professional, presentation, invoice, dark, academic, report, resume, and mmd-brand
• 📚 Merge multiple files into a single PDF with optional table of contents
• ⚙️ Configurable via CLI options or config file
• 🔄 Watch mode for live regeneration
• 📦 Batch conversion support

Installation

npm install -g docforge-cli

Quick Start

# Convert a markdown file to PDF
docforge md document.md

# Convert with a specific style
docforge md report.md --style professional

# Convert HTML to PDF
docforge html page.html -o output.pdf

# Merge multiple files into one PDF
docforge merge chapter1.md chapter2.md chapter3.md -o book.pdf

# Merge with table of contents
docforge merge *.md -o combined.pdf --toc

Commands

docforge md <input> / docforge markdown <input>

Convert Markdown file(s) to PDF.

docforge md README.md                      # Basic conversion
docforge md doc.md -o output.pdf           # Specify output
docforge md doc.md --style dark            # Use dark theme
docforge md doc.md --format Letter         # US Letter size
docforge md doc.md --landscape             # Landscape orientation
docforge md doc.md --toc                   # Include table of contents
docforge md doc.md -w                      # Watch for changes

docforge html <input>

Convert HTML file(s) to PDF.

docforge html page.html                    # Basic conversion
docforge html page.html --style minimal    # Inject a style
docforge html page.html --wait 2000        # Wait for JS rendering
docforge html page.html --selector ".ready" # Wait for element

docforge merge <files...>

Merge multiple markdown files into a single PDF.

docforge merge ch1.md ch2.md ch3.md -o book.pdf
docforge merge *.md -o combined.pdf --toc  # With table of contents
docforge merge docs/*.md --sort            # Sort alphabetically
docforge merge *.md --style academic       # Use academic style

docforge styles

List all available built-in styles.

docforge init

Create a docforge.config.js configuration file.

docforge batch <pattern>

Convert multiple files matching a pattern.

docforge batch "*.md" -o ./pdfs
docforge batch "docs/*.html" -t html

Built-in Styles

| Style | Description | |-------|-------------| | minimal | Clean, simple styling with good typography | | professional | Business-ready documents with subtle accents | | presentation | Slide-like layout for presentations and decks | | dark | Dark mode theme for screen-friendly PDFs | | academic | Academic paper style (Times New Roman, double-spaced) | | report | Corporate report style with cover page support | | resume | Clean CV/resume layout | | invoice | Clean invoice and billing document style | | mmd-brand | Make More Digital branded documents |

Configuration

Create a docforge.config.js file in your project root:

module.exports = {
  style: 'professional',
  format: 'A4',
  landscape: false,
  markdown: {
    toc: false,
    headerFooter: true,
  },
  html: {
    wait: 0,
    selector: null,
  },
  customCss: '',
};

Programmatic Usage

const { convertMarkdown, convertHtml, mergeMarkdownFiles } = require('docforge-cli');

// Convert markdown
await convertMarkdown('input.md', { style: 'professional', output: 'output.pdf' });

// Convert HTML
await convertHtml('page.html', { format: 'Letter' });

// Merge files
await mergeMarkdownFiles(['ch1.md', 'ch2.md'], { toc: true, output: 'book.pdf' });

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• Chromium (automatically installed with Puppeteer)

License

MIT © Make More Digital

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.