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Better Export PDF is an Obsidian PDF export enhancement plugin that adds the ability to export bookmarks outline, export preview and add page numbers to PDF compared to the official PDF export function.
Compared to the official Export PDF feature:
In Obsidian go to Settings > Third-party plugins > Community Plugins > Browse
and search for Better Export PDF
.
{VaultFolder}/.obsidian/plugins/
or use the BRAT Plugin.
Better Export PDF
;Better Export PDF: Export Current File to PDF
.Export
, select the export path, and if you don't need to modify the configuration, you can directly press the Enter
key to trigger the export operation.Set page numbers using the Header Template
and Footer Template
, for example:
<div style="width: 100vw;font-size:10px;text-align:center;">
<span class="pageNumber"></span> / <span class="totalPages"></span>
</div>
See details <webview>.printToPDF(options)
.
It can be any HTML fragment, such as adding a base64 image:
<div style="width: 100vw;font-size:10px;text-align:center;">
<img height="10px" width="10px" src="https://github.com/l1xnan/obsidian-better-export-pdf/raw/master/data:image/svg+xml;base64,xxx..." />
<span class="title"></span>
</div>
Document level header/footer templates can also be configured in frontMatter:
headerTemplate
footerTemplate
If you want to further customize the PDF export style, you can add custom CSS in the Appearance > CSS Snippet
, such as custom fonts and sizes:
@media print {
body {
--font-interface-override: "Times New Roman" !important;
--font-text-override: "Times New Roman" !important;
--font-print-override: "Times New Roman" !important;
--font-monospace-override: "Consolas" !important;
--font-text-size: 20px !important;
font-family: "Times New Roman" !important;
}
}
First, enable the Select CSS snippets
option in the plugin configuration. This will allow you to see the CSS snippets
option in the modal for exporting PDFs. From there, you can choose CSS snippets that have not been globally enabled in the Appearance > CSS Fragments
section.
PDF Metadata can be added to through frontMatter of the configuration document. Supported field items are:
title
author
keywords
created_at
updated_at
creator
producer
Select the folder in the sidebar, right-click the menu Export folder to PDF
, you can export the entire folder contents to a PDF file.
Note: This does not guarantee the file export order.
Create a new table of contents note, add something like the following, need to add a toc: true
document property:
---
toc: true
---
## Table of Contents
[[Note1|Title1]]
[[Note2]]
[[Note2]]
This allows the plugin to export the notes in the order of the internal links. The anchor point of the exported PDF table of contents supports clicking to jump.
Select the folder in the sidebar, right-click the menu Export each file to PDF
, you can batch export each file of the entire folder to PDF file.
In the export dialog, select Custom
for Page Size and set Margin to None
. Set the page size according to the document's requirements.
@media print
css style;This plugin takes a lot of work to maintain and continue adding features. If you want to fund the continued development of this plugin you can do so here: