Convert .md Files in the Repo to PDF
Problem to solve
Our customers want to get the installation instructions separately, in PDF or DOCX format. I don't have to tell you how troublesome is holding such document aside. And versioning DOCX or PDF inside the project repository is out of the question. We'd love to keep all documentations, installation instructions, etc. in the markdown format, inside the project's repository.
Since GitLab has the best markdown viewer ever! we'd love to see a feature of exporting the markdown to PDF. It would me even more awesome, to do such export via REST-API, giving a branch name, tag name or commit hash in the parameter and the file name which is to be exported. We could then automate such process during release build on our CI.
Proposal
Allow users to convert .md files in the repository to PDF.
- Add tertiary button for overflow action using the
ellipsis_vicon - Only appears for Markdown files
- Menu item is called "Export as PDF"
- If the feature is only to export via using a printing mechanism like Feat: Add print to PDF for wiki (!125260 - merged) then renaming the menu action is preferred because it matches what will happen.
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