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I suspect a bit of sock-puppetry on this thread. The demo PDF is nice looking, but there are many more ways to generate PDF from Markdown, via LaTeX or HTML. Most people willing to use Markdown instead of Word, Pages, etc. would know how to use tools like pandoc, I assume.

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There are plenty of people who like Markdown who don't want to manage a document production tool chain. This is aimed at those people. Folks who like a DIY approach should definitely take that route if it works for them.

I suspect a bit of sock-puppetry on this thread.

Based on what?

There are a few highly positive comments on this thread that read like advertisements or featured testimonials.

(This suspicion is primarily based on the average negativity and skepticism by the Hacker News community :)

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