i think this will work,. going to build the client side micro service real quick and test.

MdBook/GenerateMdBook.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+mdbook build

PDF/GeneratePDF.sh

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ PDFMetadataFileInput="$3"
 export PDFMetadataFile
 PDFMetadataFile="$4"
 
-$MO_PATH $YamlInputTemplateFile > $PDFMetadataFile
+$MO_PATH $PDFMetadataFileInput > $PDFMetadataFile
 
 pandoc \
 $MarkdownInput \

PDF/SupportMaterials/PDFMetadata.yml

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-title: tbd
-titlepage: true
-author: tbd
-date: \today
-toc: true
-toc-own-page: true
-header-left: "\\hspace{1cm}"
-header-center: "\\leftmark"
-header-right: "Page \\thepage"
-footer-left: "\\thetitle"
-footer-center: "Copyright ReachableCEO Enterprises LLC"
-footer-right: "\\theauthor"
-page-background: "tbd"
-titlepage-logo: "tbd"