I’ve been toying with this all day.
From my understanding, you can use reference files with desired fonts, headers, etc.
when doing file conversions with Pandoc.
For example:
If I wanted to convert the markdown file ‘filename.md’ to a .docx file of the same name
using a reference file I’d enter into the command line:
pandoc --reference-docx=reference.docx filename.md -o filename.docx
The problem I’m having is when I run through this command, it returns:
pandoc: reference.docx: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
After reading online about where to keep my reference docs, a few sites mentioned saving under ‘.pandoc/’, which didn’t exist. My first guess was that because I used the OS X installer that it didn’t create it. So I made one, and saved a reference.docx to that directory.
I restarted and tried the command again a few different ways, no dice. My guess is that I was still saving my reference files to the wrong directory, haven’t sourced something correctly, or I’m missing some point completely.
UPDATE
I went with the obvious and tried the commands from within the same directory I had my reference files in. Tabbing through, syntax is good, directory is good, all files in the right place, but now I have a new error:
pandoc: Did not find end of central directory signature. Failed reading at byte position 4
This is apparently a zip file issue now…
If anyone knows a quick fix that’d be helpful, otherwise I’m reinstalling a different version I’ve found of Pandoc with some extra resources, hopefully that’ll solve it.
Reinstalling from source and using a different reference doc solved the issue.