bowenliang123/markdown-exporter

Overview

This skill converts Markdown text into a broad set of output formats (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, PNG, HTML, IPYNB, MD, CSV, JSON, JSONL, XML, LaTeX) and extracts fenced code blocks into language-specific files. It provides a command-line interface and programmatic hooks to automate document generation, slides, spreadsheets, images, and code artifacts from a single Markdown source. The tool is focused on reliable, repeatable transformations for documentation and publishing workflows.

How this skill works

The skill processes a Markdown file path as input and runs format-specific exporters to create the requested output file(s). Table parsers convert Markdown tables to CSV/JSON/XLSX/XML/LaTeX, while document exporters use templates and rendering backends to produce DOCX, PPTX, PDF, PNG, and HTML. A dedicated extractor saves fenced code blocks into files by detected language, optionally packaging results into a ZIP.

When to use it

• Produce print-ready PDFs or DOCX handouts from Markdown documentation.
• Generate slide decks (PPTX) from Pandoc-style Markdown slides.
• Export Markdown tables into CSV, JSON, XLSX, or XML for data analysis.
• Create PNG images of pages for previews or image-based delivery.
• Extract code examples from docs into runnable .py, .js, .sh files for testing or packaging.

Best practices

• Provide a file path input; the CLI requires file paths rather than raw text.
• Use the --strip-wrapper option when Markdown is embedded in code blocks or wrappers.
• For consistent styling, pass a template for DOCX or PPTX exports.
• Place each table on its own logical section to ensure correct multi-sheet XLSX mapping.
• Run codeblock extraction against a single-language or well-labeled Markdown to avoid ambiguous file extensions.

Example use cases

• Convert technical docs to a single PDF and a DOCX editable handout for stakeholders.
• Transform lecture notes into a PPTX slide deck using Pandoc-style slide separators.
• Export multiple Markdown tables into an XLSX workbook with each table on its own sheet.
• Generate PNG previews of documentation pages for a static site or social share.
• Extract all code snippets from a tutorial into a ZIP of runnable files for students.