This is meant to be used in conjunction with shauser's mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin, which already does a fantastic job of adding HTML > PDF documents for each generated mkdocs page (and custom download links on each page!).
I've used some of the best parts of jgrassler's mkdocs-pandoc, which actually works really, really well. However it didn't pull the full document together with bookmarks tree laid out properly for me.
This script will:
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Parse through the mkdocs.yml file (nav section only)
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Correctly identify root level documents and headers
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Nth level documents, headers, their parents and their child documents
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Stitch together all PDF files generated from those .md (.html) files, into one long coherent document
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Add bookmarks at all the right places
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Model the outline (bookmark) tree in the same manner as specified in the mkdocs.yml file.
mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin, installed, running and tested.
PyPDF2 (python -m pip install PyPDF2)
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Place into your parent folder with mkdocs.yml.
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Build your mkdocs site with
python -m mkdocs build. -
Run
python mkdocs_pdf_flatten.py -o output.pdf
Not much there, I've ripped most of the stuff out of the original mkdocs-pandoc in favour of just stitching the PDF's together.
-f --> Specify config file
-e --> Specify encoding (doesn't actually do much)
-o --> Output file. Should default to output.pdf.