images?!

it seems images aren’t included in the resulting PDF file.

I put some images into my MD document, using inline span syntax (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img)

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)

the resulting image shows in html file, which is an intermediate in your code

function markdownToPdfTask (filePath, opts) {
    ....
    var html = marked(data) // I checked temporal html contains valid <IMG> tags converted from above markdown

however, they’re just blank in the resulting PDF.

markdown-pdf test.md # test.pdf has no images

if I save the intermediate html and load it in chrome, they render correctly.

is there any solution for this? markdown-pdf produces very beautiful pdf files, and I really want to use them in my report generation.

[nickcmaynard]

@strk, here’s a solution I’ve hacked together using Cheerio:

var markdownpdf = require("markdown-pdf")
  , split = require("split")
  , through = require("through")
  , duplexer = require("duplexer")
var through = require('through');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');

// This should be where your .md file lives
var imgBasePath = __dirname + "/markdown/";
var preProcessHtml = function() {

    return through(function(data) {
        var $ = cheerio.load(data);

        $('img[src]').each(function(i, elem) {
            var path = $(this).attr('src');
            path = imgBasePath + path;
            $(this).attr('src', path);
        });

        this.queue($.html());
    });
};

markdownpdf({preProcessHtml: preProcessHtml})
  .from("/path/to/document.md")
  .to("/path/to/document.pdf", function () { console.log("Done") })

It’s certainly not a cure-all - I’d like to see this in markdown-pdf natively - but it might get you out of a bind.

[pbattisson]

We have also had this same issue and the resolution is to put the full path to the image in the file not just to relative local path - e.g. /Users/Bob/docs/images/myImg.jpg not just images/myImg.jpg.