Do all PDFs really need pdflatex?

[PeteMichaud]

When the plugin checks for features one of the checks is does is whether the target output type needs pdflatex to run. That check is exactly:

obsidian-pandoc/pandoc.ts

Lines 74 to 76 in c8cf21a

	export function needsLaTeX(format: OutputFormat): boolean {
	return format === 'pdf';
	}

In other words, the plugin will not generate any pdfs unless pdflatex is also installed.

I suspect this is wrong and that many pdfs can be generated without pdflatex, but I don't know the details and might be wrong.

If I'm not wrong, I'm not sure how to fix it. We need a way to detect whether a particular file needs pdflatex to convert, but I don't know what that check would look like.