Feature Request: New Document from Clipboard w/ Support for Markdown

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Feature Request: New Document from Clipboard w/ Support for Markdown

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I often copy markdown output from LLMs to create PDF documents. With PDF-XChange, I can do this, but I first need to save the copied markdown as a file, then use the New Document -> From Markdown feature to create the PDF.

What I would like to do is use the Create New Document from Clipboard feature to directly convert copied markdown into a PDF. This would involve adding a markdown option to the “Clipboard data types:” window, functioning the same as the New Document -> From Markdown workflow (see rough mockup below).

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Features I really want:
1. Fully customizable toolbars: https://forum.tracker-software.com/viewtopic.php?p=167585
2. Ability to draw curved lines: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=178335
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Re: Feature Request: New Document from Clipboard w/ Support for Markdown

Post by Sean - PDF-XChange »

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion - I've passed it on to the team.

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Sean Godley
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Re: Feature Request: New Document from Clipboard w/ Support for Markdown

Post by mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap »

I really like the new markdown plugin in version 11.1 (used Claude to create the perfect CSS file to make the conversion). I had stopped creating pdfs from markdown documents there for a while because the old way didn't format them correctly.

With the recent improvements, I wanted to check on this and see what the dev team said. It would be nice to be able to create new documents from markdown (i.e., Create New Document from Clipboard tool) or new pages from Markdown (i.e., Insert Pages from Clipboard tool).
Features I really want:
1. Fully customizable toolbars: https://forum.tracker-software.com/viewtopic.php?p=167585
2. Ability to draw curved lines: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=178335