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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Export notes as pixel-perfect PDFs with live preview, style presets, manual page breaks, tables, and full layout control.

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Advanced PDF Export — Obsidian Plugin

Export Obsidian notes as pixel-perfect PDFs with six style presets, manual page breaks, full layout control, and a live preview — all from the plugin panel.

Desktop only — requires the Obsidian desktop app (uses Electron's print pipeline).

Main panel with live preview

Features

  • Manual preview rendering — click ⟳ Render PDF button or press Ctrl+Enter / Cmd+Enter to update the preview
  • Copy content to editor — click copy from note button to load the current note into the editor (changes are local, non-destructive)
  • Style presets — six built-in presets (Default, Minimal, Academic, Colorful, Modern, Newspaper), each with a Reset button
  • Manual page breaks — type /// on its own line to force a page break
  • Auto page breaks — optional: insert page break before every # (H1) or ## (H2) heading
  • Page size & orientation — A4, A3, A5, Letter, Legal × Portrait / Landscape
  • Full margin control — top, bottom, left, right (mm)
  • Typography — font family, size, line height, paragraph spacing, heading scale
  • Colors — accent, body text, headings, blockquote border, table header background, code background
  • Heading styles — per-heading bottom border toggles, center H1
  • Tables — optional striped rows
  • Header & footer — custom text, page numbers (X / Y), position control
  • Zoom slider — scale preview 35%–100% without re-paginating
  • Pixel-perfect export — generates PDF via Electron's printToPDF; exported PDF matches preview exactly

Screenshots

Page Breaks

Type /// on its own line to insert a hard page break

Page break syntax in action

Style Presets

Presets configurations can be changed from settings

Style preset dropdown

Academic preset

Academic preset — alternate view

and more...

Settings Panel

Page & Preset settings

Typography & Colors settings

Heading Style, Tables & Header/Footer settings

Installation

Manual (GitHub Releases)

  1. Go to the Releases page.
  2. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
  3. Place them in your vault at .obsidian/plugins/advanced-pdf-export/.
  4. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin under Settings → Community Plugins.

Usage

Open the panel — click the file-output icon in the left ribbon, or Ctrl/Cmd + P → Open Advanced PDF Export panel. The panel opens in the right sidebar.

Load a note — click on a note then click on copy from note button to load the active note into the editor. Edits are local to this panel; they don't sync back to your vault (by design, for layout-only adjustments).

Edit markdown — type or paste markdown in the editor.

Insert Pagebreak - Use /// on its own line for a page break(new page).

Export — click ⬇ Export PDF in the top bar to open a native save dialog and generate the PDF.

Open settings — click the ⚙ icon in the top bar, or go to Settings → Advanced PDF Export.

Settings Reference

Go to Settings → Advanced PDF Export to configure defaults. All settings reflect immediately in the live preview.

Style Preset

Setting Description
Preset Style theme: Default, Minimal, Academic, Colorful, Modern, Newspaper
Reset Preset Restores all typographic and color values for the current preset to its defaults

Page

Setting Description
Page size A4, A3, A5, Letter, Legal
Orientation Portrait or Landscape
Margins (Top / Bottom / Left / Right) In mm

Typography

Setting Options
Font family Georgia, Times New Roman, Palatino, Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, Courier New
Font size 10 – 16 px
Line height Tight (1.4) → Double (2.0)
Paragraph spacing None → Wide (1em)
Heading scale 0.8× → 1.2× multiplier on all heading sizes

Colors

Accent · Body text · Headings · Blockquote border · Table header background · Code background

Heading Style

Setting Description
H1 bottom border Draws a line under every H1
H2 bottom border Draws a subtle line under every H2
Center H1 Centers all H1 headings

Tables

Setting Description
Striped rows Alternating row background on even rows

Header & Footer

Setting Description
Show header Toggle the header bar on or off
Header text Custom text shown top-right on every page
Show footer Toggle the footer bar on or off
Footer text Custom text shown in the footer
Show page numbers Toggle Page X / Y display
Page number position Left, Center, or Right

Behaviour

Setting Description
Auto page break before H1 Inserts /// before every # heading
Auto page break before H2 Inserts /// before every ## heading

License

Open source under GPL-3.0 License

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