# Install md2pdf with Homebrew

CLI utility that generates PDF from Markdown. Version 2.2.19 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-31.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:md2pdf
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install md2pdf
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:md2pdf
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2.19
- **Source summary:** CLI utility that generates PDF from Markdown
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/solworktech/md2pdf>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/solworktech/md2pdf>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-31T19:04:26Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- md2pdf (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.2.19
## Project history and usage

md2pdf is a Go command-line utility that renders Markdown as PDF, with syntax highlighting, light and dark themes, custom themes, tables, generated tables of contents, pagination controls, footers, and non-Latin font support.

### Project history

The public repository began in January 2018. Its tagged release line reached v1.3 in 2023, v2 in the following development period, and v2.2.18 in 2025; the v2.2.18 change also adjusted references after the project moved under the solworktech GitHub organization.

### Adoption history

The official README supports three distribution paths: downloadable release binaries, installation with Go's module-aware go install command, and Homebrew. The supplied metadata additionally records a Nix package.

### How it is used

Users pass a Markdown file, a directory of Markdown files, an HTTP(S) URL, or standard input and select an output PDF. Options control page size and orientation, themes, fonts, syntax highlighting, generated contents, page breaks, and footer metadata.

### Why package nerds care

md2pdf provides a single Go binary for document conversion and builds PDFs through gomarkdown and fpdf instead of requiring a browser-based rendering stack. That makes it attractive for shell scripts, CI jobs, and reproducible document toolchains.

### Timeline

- 2018: The public md2pdf repository is created.
- 2023: The v1.3 release line is tagged.
- 2025: The v2.2 release line reaches v2.2.18 under the solworktech organization.

### Related projects

- The official README identifies gomarkdown/markdown as the parser, go-pdf/fpdf as the PDF generator, and gohighlight as the syntax-highlighting component.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/solworktech/md2pdf#readme>
- <https://github.com/solworktech/md2pdf/blob/master/md2pdf.1.md>
- <https://github.com/solworktech/md2pdf/commits/master/>
- <https://github.com/solworktech/md2pdf/tags>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/md2pdf.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/md2pdf.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation