What is Typ?
It is a simple typesetting application. Turn plain Markdown into a formatted PDF, ready for print.
Focus on content, not formatting.
Typ is a tool in the File Conversion category of a tech stack.
Typ is an open source tool with 6 GitHub stars and 1 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Typ's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Typ?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Typ in their tech stacks, including Action Create Jira Issue, Spublic, and Spublic.
Developers
52 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Typ.
Typ's Features
- Write content in Markdown
- Syntax highlighting
- Page dimensions, fonts, formatting, and so on
- Produce PDFs usable by print on demand services
- Windows and Linux support
Typ Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Typ?
Pandoc
It is a free and open-source document converter, widely used as a writing tool and as a basis for publishing workflows. It converts files from one markup format into another. It can convert documents in (several dialects of) Markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki and many more.
wkhtmltopdf
wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.
CloudConvert
Convert anything to anything - more than 200 different audio, video, document, ebook, archive, image, spreadsheet and presentation formats supported.
WeasyPrint
It is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing. It is free software made available under a BSD license.
DocRaptor
DocRaptor makes it easy to convert HTML to PDF and XLS format. Choose your document format, select configuration options and make an HTTP POST request to our server. DocRaptor returns your file in a matter of seconds. We provide extensive documentation and examples to get you started, and our API makes it easy to use DocRaptor to generate PDF and Excel files in your own web applications.
