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mmd

Renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG in pure Rust — no Node, no browser — with real text labels, so the output survives conversion to PDF.

github.com/grahambrooks/mmd

Install

brew tap grahambrooks/mmd https://github.com/grahambrooks/mmdbrew install grahambrooks/mmd/mmd

Posts

Oct 25, 2026

Mermaid to SVG without a browser, and with the labels still there (mmd)

Convert a Mermaid diagram to PDF with an SVG-only toolchain and you can get boxes and arrows with no words in them, and no error telling you the words are gone. mmd exists because of that failure. mmd …