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Markdown to PDF Converter — Notes and READMEs as PDF
Open the converterThis Markdown to PDF converter renders a Markdown file into a styled PDF snapshot, fully in your browser. Perfect for sharing a README, sending a meeting note to a non-technical reader, archiving a blog draft, or attaching a written explainer to an email.
Markdown is the lingua franca of technical writing — every README, every issue tracker, every static-site generator, every documentation tool understands it. But Markdown is not always what your audience wants. A PDF is. The trip from `.md` to `.pdf` usually means opening the file in a Markdown viewer, printing to PDF, and accepting whatever default styling shows up.
This tool collapses those steps into one click. The Markdown is parsed with `marked` (the same library most editors use), rendered into an offscreen HTML container with sensible default typography, snapshotted with html2canvas, and written as a multi-page PDF using jspdf. The output prints and previews identically across devices.
The rendered output is a visual snapshot, not a vector PDF — links are not clickable and text is not selectable. For machine-readable text, use the Markdown to HTML converter instead and pipe the HTML through a print-to-PDF flow.
Frequently asked questions
Is my Markdown uploaded?
No. The Markdown is parsed and rendered entirely in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.
Will links in the PDF be clickable?
No. The output is a visual snapshot rendered through html2canvas. For clickable links, convert to HTML and use your browser's print-to-PDF.
Can the text in the PDF be selected or searched?
No. Because the content is rendered as a raster image inside the PDF, text is not selectable. Use the HTML output if you need a text layer.
How are long documents handled?
The snapshot is sliced across multiple letter-sized pages automatically. Page breaks fall at pixel-aligned boundaries; an in-page break could split a line.
What Markdown flavor does it support?
Standard CommonMark plus GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions (tables, task lists, fenced code blocks).
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