Markdown to PDF

How to convert Markdown to PDF online

1. 1.Add your Markdown. Paste it into the editor, click "Open .md file", or drag a file onto the page. The preview updates as you type.
2. 2.Set up the page. Choose a theme (GitHub, Clean sans, Classic serif, or Academic paper), a page size — A4, US Letter, Legal, or A5 — portrait or landscape, margins, and a base font size.
3. 3.Add the extras you need. A table of contents built from your headings, a title page, page numbers, or printed link URLs for paper copies.
4. 4.Save as PDF. Press the button (or ⌘/Ctrl + P). In the print dialog, set the destination to "Save as PDF", turn off "Headers and footers", and save. The file is named after your document's title.

That's the whole Markdown to PDF conversion — no account, no upload, no watermark, and no limit on pages or file size beyond what your browser can hold.

A free Markdown to PDF converter that runs in your browser

Most online Markdown to PDF converters send your file to a server that runs a headless browser or LaTeX and mails back a PDF. This one skips the round trip: your Markdown is rendered right here with a GitHub-flavored Markdown engine, styled with the theme you picked, and laid out on real page dimensions. The browser's own print engine — the same one that prints every web page — then writes the PDF.

The result is a proper document PDF: selectable, searchable text, crisp vector fonts at any zoom, syntax-highlighted code, and working links. The preview on the right is drawn at the exact page width you chose, so what you see is what prints.

• Everything GitHub renders — tables with column alignment, task lists with checkboxes, strikethrough, autolinks, nested lists, and fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting for 30+ languages.
• YAML front matter — a title, author, and date block at the top of the file is hidden from the body and feeds the title page and the PDF file name.
• Private by design — raw HTML inside the Markdown is sanitized and scripts never run, so pasting a file from anywhere is safe.
• Remembers your work— the current draft and your page setup are saved in this browser, so a refresh or a closed tab doesn't lose anything.

How to convert a Markdown table to PDF

Tables are where most converters fall apart: columns get squeezed, borders vanish, or a long table is cut mid-row at a page break. Here a Markdown table keeps its borders and header styling, alignment colons are respected, and rows are kept together across pages where possible. A table like this:

| Plan     | Apps | Price  |
| :------- | :--: | -----: |
| Free     |  3   |     $0 |
| Team     |  50  |    $12 |

comes out left-aligned, centered, and right-aligned exactly as marked. If a table has many columns, switch to landscape or drop the font size to 9–10 pt; if you only have CSV data, turn it into a Markdown table first with the CSV to Markdown table converter.

Page breaks, a table of contents, and a title page

Markdown describes structure, not pages, so a few conventions fill the gap. To start a new page anywhere, put this on its own line:

---pagebreak---

\pagebreak, \newpage (the Pandoc/LaTeX habit), and <!-- pagebreak --> work too. Markers inside code blocks are left alone. To fill in a title page automatically, start the file with front matter:

---
title: Design review
subtitle: Q3 platform changes
author: Ada Lovelace
date: 2026-09-24
---

Turn on table of contents to get a clickable contents page built from your headings (choose how deep it goes), and page numbers to print "3 / 12" at the bottom of every page. Headings never end up stranded at the bottom of a page, and code blocks and images aren't split across pages.

Markdown to PDF with Pandoc, VS Code, and other tools

If you convert Markdown to PDF every day, or inside a build, a command-line tool makes sense. The usual options:

• Pandoc — the universal document converter. pandoc notes.md -o notes.pdf needs a LaTeX install (BasicTeX, MacTeX, MiKTeX, or Tectonic); add --toc for a table of contents and -V geometry:margin=2cm for margins. Without LaTeX, use an HTML engine: --pdf-engine=weasyprint.
• md-to-pdf (Node) — npx md-to-pdf notes.md renders with headless Chrome, the same engine this page uses, and takes a CSS file for styling.
• VS Code— the "Markdown PDF" extension adds an "Export (pdf)" command to the command palette.
• Typora, Obsidian — desktop Markdown apps with a built-in export to PDF.

The trade-off is setup: LaTeX alone is a multi-gigabyte install, and styling a Pandoc PDF means learning LaTeX templates. For a README, a report, meeting notes, or a résumé, converting Markdown to PDF online takes seconds and lets you see the result before you save. Writing from scratch? The online Markdown editor has a toolbar, autosave, and the same PDF export.

Tips for a better Markdown PDF

• Pick a theme for the job: GitHub for technical docs and READMEs, Classic serif for reports and letters, Academic paper for essays (justified 12 pt text).
• Use one # heading for the document title and ## for sections — the table of contents and the PDF file name both come from that structure.
• Images need absolute https:// URLs; relative paths to files on your disk can't be read by a web page.
• Code blocks wrap long lines instead of running off the page, but a narrower font size or landscape keeps wide code readable.
• In Chrome, tick "Background graphics" if the dialog shows it unticked — or leave "Print background colors" on here, which forces table stripes and code backgrounds into the PDF.
• Need a Word file instead? The Markdown to Word converter makes an editable .docx from the same Markdown.

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