Exporting from the command line

Markzen also works without opening a window. Pass the Markzen executable a source file and -o with an output path, and it renders the document and writes the export straight to disk:

markzen.exe report.md -o report.pdf

The source can be any of the seven markup formats Markzen reads; the output is a PDF or an HTML file, chosen by the output name's extension. The export goes through the same rendering as the app itself, so diagrams, formulas and every other extension block come out as live figures. Exports use the default style template and fonts — the command line runs in its own clean profile, separate from the app, which also means it works fine while Markzen is already open.

Several documents can be exported in one call — give any number of source -o output pairs and a single launch renders them all, at a fraction of the cost of launching once per file:

markzen.exe a.md -o a.pdf b.adoc -o b.html c.rst -o c.pdf