Markdown to PDF
Write or paste Markdown, watch the preview, and download a typeset PDF. Nothing is uploaded.
Runs in your browser. Nothing you write is uploaded.
What this produces
A typeset document, not a screenshot. Every word in the PDF is real text: selectable, searchable, copyable and readable by a screen reader. Headings are set larger and bolder, lists are indented with their markers, code sits in a shaded panel in a monospaced face, quotes carry a rule down the side, and tables get a header row with columns sized to their contents.
The file is also small. Because it uses the standard PDF typefaces that every reader has built in, no font data is embedded at all, so a ten page document is measured in tens of kilobytes rather than hundreds.
Supported Markdown
| You write | You get |
|---|---|
# … ###### | Headings, four sizes |
**bold**, *italic*, `code` | Inline styling, mixable |
- item / 1. item | Bulleted and numbered lists, nested by indenting |
| Fenced or indented blocks | Monospaced code in a shaded panel, wrapped not clipped |
> quote | Indented quote with a coloured rule |
| a | b | | A table with a shaded header |
--- | A horizontal rule |
[text](url) | The link text, set in the document |
Images and raw HTML are not drawn. The PDF is typeset directly rather than rendered by a browser engine, which is what keeps the whole conversion local and the text real, and that is the trade it comes with.
Two limits worth knowing before you start
Latin characters only
The standard PDF typefaces cover the Latin alphabet and its accents — English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Nordic and Eastern European text all set correctly. They do not cover Devanagari, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek or Cyrillic. Supporting those means embedding a full Unicode font, which would add most of a megabyte to a page whose whole point is being fast.
So instead: characters outside the range are replaced with a question mark, common typography is mapped to its plain equivalent so curly quotes, en dashes and ellipses come out as ', - and ... rather than vanishing, and the tool reports how many characters it had to substitute. Nothing fails silently.
Layout, not design
This is a typesetter with a clean house style, not a theming engine. You choose the page size, typeface family, text size and margin; you do not choose colours, custom fonts or CSS. If you need precise visual control, write the Markdown to HTML with your own stylesheet and print that page to PDF from your browser.
Where it is better than the alternatives
Printing a Markdown preview from an editor usually brings the editor's own chrome, its background colour and its page breaks along with it. Online converters generally upload the file, which is awkward when the Markdown is a set of meeting notes, an unpublished draft or something with credentials in it. This one uploads nothing and has no monthly limit, because there is no server doing the work.
Questions
Is my Markdown sent to a server?
No. It is parsed and typeset into a PDF inside your browser, so nothing you write or paste leaves the device. There is no backend and no conversion quota, which is also why the tool has no limit on how often you use it.
Is the text in the PDF real text?
Yes. The document is typeset rather than screenshotted, so every word is selectable, searchable and copyable, and the file stays small because the standard PDF fonts carry no font data.
Which parts of Markdown are supported?
Headings, paragraphs, bold, italic, inline code, links, bulleted and numbered lists with nesting, fenced and indented code blocks, block quotes, horizontal rules and pipe tables. Images and raw HTML are not drawn, because the PDF is typeset rather than rendered by a browser engine.
Can I write in Hindi, Chinese or Arabic?
Not in the PDF. It is typeset with the standard PDF fonts, which every reader has built in but which only cover the Latin character set. Accented European text is fine. Characters outside that range are replaced and the tool tells you how many, so nothing goes wrong silently.
Does it handle tables?
Yes. Pipe tables are drawn with a shaded header row, and column widths are worked out from the content rather than divided equally, so one long column does not squash four short ones. A cell that is too long wraps inside its column.
What happens to a code block that runs off the page?
It wraps rather than being cut off, and a long block splits across pages with its shaded panel continuing. Code is set in Courier so columns line up the way they do in an editor.
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