Add a cover to a pdf document using an SVG template and the pandoc metadata.

1. Create a SVG template called foo.svg. Write {{ title }} in place of the title and {{ whatever }} in place of whatever information you want to display on the cover (see templates/sample_front.j2.svg for an example).

2. Add title and whatever variables in your bar.md document

   title: 'Hello World !'
   whatever: 'This is so simple'
   pandoc-cover:
     front: 'path/to/foo.svg'

3. Launch pandoc with the pandoc_cover filter.

   pandoc --filter=pandoc-cover bar.md -o bar.pdf
   

pip install pandoc-cover