RexxPub: A Rexx Publisher Framework

Provided document classes

• Article.

Dependencies

• Pandoc, to transform Markdown into HTML5.
• Pagedjs-cli, to transform HTML5 to PDF.
• Node.js, needed by pagedjs-cli. Node.js includes npm.
• To ensure that PDF files generated by pagedjs-cli open with the document outline, you will need to install Python and pikepdf.

Installing Node.js and npm under Windows

Download Node.js from https://nodejs.org and install it. Make sure that the option to add Node.js to the PATH is enabled.

You can test that node and npm are installed correctly by running

node --version

and

npm --version

from the command line (Powershell is not required).

Installing pagedjs-cli under Windows

Ensure than Node.js and npm are installed. Open a Command Prompt and run

npm install -g pagedjs-cli

This may take some time, as npm will probably have to install a lot of dependencies. If you prefer to use Powershell, you may also need to adjust the execution policy.

You can verify that pagedjs-cli is installed by running

pagedjs-cli --help

If you now create a small correct HTML file called test.html and run

pagedjs-cli test.html -o test.pdf

and test.pdf is created without errors, your installation is good.