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Markdown to PDF
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Why convert Markdown to PDF
Markdown is great for writing but people outside your team cannot read a raw .md file comfortably. A PDF with typographic headings and monospace code blocks reads like a proper document and prints well.
GitHub-flavored extensions are supported: tables, task lists, strikethrough and fenced code with language labels. Relative image links are skipped; absolute image URLs are embedded.
How it works
- Drop Markdown, TXT files onto the box above, click it to browse, or paste from the clipboard.
- Adjust the options if you need to — the defaults suit most cases.
- Press Convert. The work happens on your device, so speed depends on your computer or phone.
- Download the PDF.
About the formats
Markdown · Markdown text · .md
Lightweight text formatting used on GitHub, in note apps and documentation: # for headings, * for lists, links in brackets.
- Markdown has several dialects; GitHub-Flavored Markdown adds tables, task lists and strikethrough.
- Because the source is plain text, Markdown files diff and version well in Git.
- Rendering Markdown to HTML is the first step of most Markdown to PDF conversions.
TXT · Plain text · .txt
Just characters, no formatting: the most portable format there is, opened by every editor ever written.
- Plain text has no fonts, colours or images; only the words, line breaks and tabs survive.
- Encoding matters: UTF-8 is the modern default; older Windows files may use Windows-1252 and show odd characters for accented letters.
- Line endings differ between Windows (CRLF) and macOS/Linux (LF), which some tools care about.
PDF · Portable Document Format · .pdf
The fixed-layout document standard: looks the same on every device and printer, which is why forms, invoices, contracts and reports are shared as PDF.
- A PDF can contain vector text, embedded fonts, images, form fields, annotations and digital signatures.
- Scanned PDFs are just pictures of pages; they need OCR before the text can be searched or copied.
- PDF is an open ISO standard (ISO 32000) since 2008.
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