Sublime Text, Pandoc, and exporting Markdown to PDF - pdf-generation

Question

So, I have Sublime Text set up with the pandoc package. When I try to export a markdown file (with a .md extension) to PDF using this package, I get the following error:
Fail to generate output. Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
When I use pandoc from the command line, it generates a PDF just fine. So I'm assuming this is an issue with the package. When I use the pandoc package to generate things that aren't PDFs, like html or docx, it works just fine. Anyone know what I've got wrong?
For reference, my pandoc package user settings:
{
"default": {
"pandoc-path": "C:/Program Files (x86)/Pandoc/pandoc.exe",
"transformations": {
"HTML 5": {
"scope": {
"text.html.markdown": "markdown"
},
"syntax_file": "Packages/HTML/HTML.tmLanguage",
"pandoc-arguments": [
"-t", "html",
"--to=html5",
"--no-highlight",
]
},
"PDF": {
"scope": {
"text.html": "html",
"text.html.markdown": "markdown"
},
"pandoc-arguments": [
"-t", "pdf",
"-s", "--toc", "--number-sections",
"--variable", "geometry:margin=1.25in",
"-t", "pdf",
"--latex-engine=C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9",
]
},
"Microsoft Word": {
"scope": {
"text.html": "html",
"text.html.markdown": "markdown"
},
"pandoc-arguments": [
"-t", "docx",
"-s", "--toc", "--number-sections"
]
},
},
"pandoc-format-file": ["docx", "epub", "pdf", "odt", "html"]
}
}