Markdown to PDF

Turn a Markdown document into a clean, typeset PDF.

Worth knowing before you startMarkdown is parsed by marked (GFM mode) and laid out directly by pdf-lib — no iframe, no canvas rasterisation. Text is real and selectable. Headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered lists, tables, code blocks, and inline bold/italic/code are all supported. Inline images are skipped (they would require network fetches). The theme option selects typographic settings but all output uses the standard Helvetica/Courier PDF fonts, not web fonts.

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How to markdown to pdf

Open a Markdown file, or paste Markdown text directly.
Choose a theme, page size and code highlighting style.
Convert and download a properly typeset PDF.

About this tool

Markdown to PDF is the conversion direction that actually works well in a browser. Markdown is a clean, unambiguous source format: headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and code blocks all have direct equivalents in HTML and CSS, so rendering them to a paginated PDF produces a consistent, attractive result.

The result is genuinely typeset — proper heading hierarchy, body text at a readable size, syntax-highlighted code blocks that a developer would recognise from their editor, and clean table rendering. Choose the Academic theme for serif body text appropriate to formal documents, GitHub for a familiar web-like style, or Minimal for something stripped back.

This is also the best way to produce a PDF from content you have written in a text editor or exported from an LLM. Paste the Markdown, pick a theme, and download a PDF you would hand to someone — no layout juggling required.

Questions

Does this support GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)?

Yes. Tables, task lists, strikethrough, fenced code blocks with language specifiers, and footnotes are all supported. The parser follows the GFM specification.

How are code blocks handled?

Fenced code blocks with a language tag (like ```python) are syntax-highlighted using the chosen theme. Code blocks without a language tag are rendered in a monospace font without highlighting. Long lines are wrapped rather than truncated.

Can I embed images in the Markdown?

Yes. Image references using relative paths are resolved against the Markdown file's location. Absolute URLs are loaded from the network. Base64 data URIs also work for fully self-contained Markdown.

Why does this work well when Word-to-PDF does not?

Markdown is a simple, unambiguous format. There is no layout model to infer from — headings are headings, lists are lists, and code blocks are code blocks. The converter renders the Markdown to HTML and applies a CSS theme, then paginates. Every element has a clear, well-supported HTML counterpart. The DOCX format by contrast has hundreds of layout features with no clean HTML equivalent.

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