<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>For those who don't know what Prince is, I found it:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.princexml.com">http://www.princexml.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Apparently a single-user license is $349. OUCH!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lloyd, I just found something called pandoc, which can read markdown and write LaTeX. I haven't tested it yet, but if it works properly you should be able to generate a LaTeX document from your markdown and then render that to PDF. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about footers with markdown. Worst case you could post-process the LaTeX document to include the footers you want. Or perhaps pandoc will let you modify the LaTeX document preamble to include a custom package which provides your footers?</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 4, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Lloyd Williams wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Is there a less expensive solution to creating a pdf with footers from markdown other than Prince? Thank you.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Kevin Ballard</DIV><DIV><A href="http://kevin.sb.org">http://kevin.sb.org</A></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:kevin@sb.org">kevin@sb.org</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.tildesoft.com">http://www.tildesoft.com</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>