Step 1: Provide your MD files using the button above or by toss and let go.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Fetch your converted PDF files.
MD to PDF Conversion FAQ
How do I convert MD to PDF for sharing or printing?
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Upload the MD file and the converter renders it onto PDF pages with sensible defaults: A4 / letter size, 1-inch margins, embedded fonts. Multi-page sources (DOCX, EPUB, XLSX) preserve their natural page breaks; single-asset sources (images) get one page each, auto-fit to the page. MD is Markdown, John Gruber’s 2004 plain-text syntax for writing structured documents that stay readable as source. PDF is Adobe’s Portable Document Format from 1993, standardised as ISO 32000 and now the universal fixed-layout document.
Will the text still reflow to my screen after converting MD to PDF?
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No — this conversion pins the layout. An MD adapts its line breaks to whatever width and font size the reader is using; the PDF fixes page geometry at conversion time, so on a phone you get the whole page scaled down rather than text rewrapped to the screen. That is the right trade when the layout must not move, and the wrong one when the file is for reading on a small device. Markdown is the lingua franca of documentation, README files, static site generators and note-taking apps, and it diffs cleanly in git.
Will the PDF look formatted if the MD had no formatting?
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It will look plain, because there is nothing to recover. An MD carries no styling information, so the converter applies a clean default — a readable body font, sensible margins, paragraphs separated where blank lines were. Headings are inferred where the source used a recognisable convention, and everything else arrives as body text.
Can I still edit the content after converting MD to PDF?
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Not the way you edit the MD. The PDF is a delivery format: it fixes the layout so it renders identically everywhere, which is exactly why it resists editing. Keep the MD as the working copy and regenerate the PDF whenever the content changes — round-tripping back out of PDF always loses something.
Which Markdown dialect does this conversion use?
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CommonMark plus the GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions, which is the combination almost every current tool understands. That matters because Markdown was never standardised in one place: tables, footnotes, strikethrough and raw HTML behave differently between dialects, and those are exactly the constructs that silently change meaning when a document moves between renderers.
Will the MD to PDF conversion keep my fonts and formatting?
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Yes for text-bearing MD (DOCX, ODT, HTML, TXT) — fonts are embedded into the PDF so the output looks identical on every viewer. Image-only MD (JPG, PNG) just centres the image on the page; layout is N/A.
Can I merge multiple MD files into one PDF?
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Yes — drop multiple MD files into the upload zone and choose the "merge into one PDF" option. They appear as sequential pages in the PDF in upload order; drag-to-reorder is supported before conversion. Useful for stitching a folder of scans into a single archival PDF.
What page size and orientation does the PDF use?
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Defaults: A4 portrait (international) or letter portrait (US). The advanced options expose page-size (A3, A4, A5, letter, legal, tabloid, custom) and orientation (portrait / landscape). For image MD, the "auto-fit" choice picks orientation to match the source aspect ratio.
Will hyperlinks in my MD survive the PDF conversion?
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Yes for MD formats that carry real hyperlink metadata (DOCX, ODT, HTML, EPUB). Image-based MD (JPG, PNG, TIFF) have no hyperlinks to preserve. The PDF file uses the standard PDF anchor model so links work in every reader (Acrobat, Preview, Chrome, Edge).
Is the PDF searchable with selectable text?
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Yes when the MD contains real text layers (DOCX, ODT, HTML, TXT, EPUB). Image-based MD produces an image-only PDF — to make it searchable, follow up with /pdf-ocr/ to run optical character recognition over the page bundle. Markdown is plain text with lightweight conventions — hashes for headings, asterisks for emphasis, hyphens for lists.
Can I password-protect the PDF after conversion?
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Not in this same step — convert MD to PDF first, then use /pdf-protect/ to add an open password, owner password, or print / edit restrictions. Splitting the steps lets each conversion stay focused and fast.
How big will the PDF file be?
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Depends on the MD. A 10-page DOCX with embedded fonts produces a 200-400 KB PDF. A 10-image JPG batch at full resolution produces a 5-20 MB PDF. The advanced "compress images in PDF" toggle re-encodes embedded images at JPG quality-85 to shrink the PDF aggressively.
