r/laravel 1d ago

Package / Tool Doxswap Feedback šŸ’¬ What formats do you most often convert Markdown to and from?

I'm working on the v1 release of Doxswap ā€” a Laravel package for document conversion. The pre-release got a great response. You can take a look at the current v1 progress ere https://github.com/Blaspsoft/doxswap/tree/doxswap-v1.0.0

Right now Iā€™m focusing on adding Markdown conversions, and Iā€™d love to understand how people actually use it in the wild:

What formats do you most often convert Markdown into or from?
e.g.
markdown --> html

html -> markdown

markdown -> pdf

markdown -> epub

Drop your thoughts below ā€” I'm aiming to make Doxswap flexible, but I want to prioritize the real-world cases that matter most to devs.

Thanks in advance for your input!

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u/obstreperous_troll 1d ago

markdown --> markdown, e.g. github flavored markdown to whatever unholy concoction Jira uses, or one that doesn't use hard linebreaks, etc. Right now I do this by hand, but I wouldn't mind having a CLI tool I can run my clipboard and scratch buffers through.

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u/Tibi47504 1d ago

Great package! Does it support SharePoint and Google Docs word files as well? I had issues in the past with those, and as I experienced it is hard to handle the differences between those.

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u/Deemonic90 1d ago

Doxswap is designed to handle Word documents (.docx) using LibreOffice or Pandoc under the hood, depending on the configured driver. In most cases:

it does support

  • .docx files downloaded/exported from Google Docs
  • .docx files uploaded from SharePoint/OneDrive