Markdown to PDF Converter
LocalConvert Markdown into a formatted PDF with real text
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MD, Markdown • Max 10 MB
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How do I convert a Markdown file to PDF?
Pick your .md file and convert it. GitHub-flavoured Markdown is parsed and laid out with its formatting intact: heading sizes, bold and italic, bullet and numbered lists, tables, block quotes and fenced code in a monospace face. Links stay clickable. Choose the page size, orientation and margin, and the whole conversion runs in your browser.
About the Markdown to PDF Converter
Convert a Markdown file into a PDF that keeps its formatting: headings at their own sizes, bold and italic, bullet and numbered lists, tables, block quotes, fenced code in a monospace face, and links that stay clickable. GitHub-flavoured Markdown is supported. The result is a real text layer you can select, search and copy — not a picture of a page. The text layer uses the built-in PDF fonts, so it covers English, Western European accents and common punctuation, but not Cyrillic, Greek, CJK or emoji.
- Turn a README, a set of meeting notes or an exported note-taking file into a PDF you can attach, print or file.
- Keep the structure that made the Markdown readable — heading hierarchy, lists, tables and code blocks all survive the conversion instead of collapsing into one column of body text.
- Send documentation to someone without a Markdown reader and have the code samples still look like code.
- Confirm before sending that the text is representable in the built-in PDF fonts, because Cyrillic, Greek, CJK and emoji are reported as an error rather than silently dropped.
How to use the Markdown to PDF tool
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Upload MD, Markdown file
Select MD, Markdown file from your device or drag file into the upload area.
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Choose settings
Choose settings such as Page Size, Orientation, Margin before processing.
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Convert to PDF
Run the Markdown to PDF tool to create the PDF output.
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Download the result
Download the finished file. The original file stays on your device and is not uploaded.
Does the PDF keep Markdown formatting and styling?
Yes. Headings render at their own sizes in bold, emphasis becomes real italic and bold type, list markers and indentation survive, tables keep their cell borders and column alignment, block quotes keep their indent and rule, and fenced code sits on a shaded background in a monospace face. Links remain clickable annotations in the finished PDF rather than flattened text. The layout comes from your browser's own rendering engine, so what you get closely matches how the same Markdown looks rendered on screen.
What page setup does the output use, and can it be changed?
Letter portrait with a 54-point margin by default, and all three are adjustable: page size offers Letter, A4, Legal, A3 and A5, orientation switches to landscape, and the margin runs from 18 to 108 points. Margin is not a crop — the document is laid out against the width your margin leaves, so widening it rewraps every line rather than cutting text off. Pages break between lines, never through them, and headings are not left stranded at the foot of a page.
Is the text selectable, or is it a picture of a page?
It is real text. Every word is drawn into the PDF as a text object with its own font, size and colour, so the result can be selected, searched, copied and read aloud by a screen reader. This is the difference between this converter and the many that screenshot a rendered page and wrap the image in a PDF: those produce a file that looks right and contains nothing a computer can read. The trade-off is font coverage — the built-in PDF fonts handle Latin scripts, and anything outside them is reported rather than silently dropped.
Are my files uploaded when converting Markdown to PDF?
No. The Markdown is read from disk by the page and the PDF is assembled in memory, so drafts stay drafts. Markdown files are usually working documents — unpublished posts, internal runbooks, notes with half-formed decisions in them — and there is no reason for that material to pass through a hosted renderer just to become printable.
How to do this offline, on the command line
Pandoc is the standard answer, and unlike this page it keeps headings, lists and emphasis.
pandoc
macOS: brew install pandoc · Debian/Ubuntu: apt install pandoc
pandoc notes.md -o notes.pdfNeeds a LaTeX engine for PDF output; add --pdf-engine=weasyprint to render through HTML and CSS instead.
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