# MD to PDF Converter > A free Markdown to PDF converter with a print-accurate live preview. One renderer produces both the preview and the file, so the page on screen is the page in the PDF. No watermark, no sign-up, and documents are never stored. Website: https://www.mdtopdfconverter.com ## How to convert Markdown to PDF 1. **Paste or open your Markdown** — Type, paste from ChatGPT, Claude or Obsidian, or drag a .md file onto the page. Nothing is uploaded until you ask for a PDF. 2. **Check the preview** — Same width, same margins, same point size. A line that wraps on screen wraps in the PDF, so there are no surprises after export. 3. **Download the PDF** — One click. No account, no watermark, no waiting on an ad. The file is produced and sent straight back to your browser. ## What Markdown it supports - **GitHub-flavoured Markdown** — Headings, lists, tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough and autolinks. - **Syntax-highlighted code** — Around 200 languages, highlighted server-side so nothing depends on a stylesheet loading. - **Mermaid diagrams** — Flowcharts, sequence, class, state, ER, Gantt and pie charts, drawn as vector art. - **LaTeX maths** — Inline and display maths through KaTeX, including matrices and large operators. - **Inline HTML** — Details, subscripts, keyboard keys, figures and alignment attributes, sanitised before rendering. - **YAML front matter** — Title, author and date become an optional title page. ## Why the PDF comes out right - **No watermark, ever** — Free converters commonly stamp exports with tiled watermark text, which also lands in the PDF's text layer and wrecks copy-paste, search and screen readers. Nothing is stamped here. - **Page breaks that behave** — Headings are never stranded at the foot of a page, table header rows repeat when a table spans pages, and code blocks keep at least three lines together. - **Real bookmarks and live links** — Every heading becomes a PDF bookmark, so long documents are navigable in any reader. Links stay clickable and the file is tagged for accessibility. - **Fonts embedded properly** — Real bold and italic faces are embedded rather than synthesised, and Chinese, Japanese and Korean text falls back to fonts that survive the export. ## Formatting controls - Ten typefaces: Inter, Roboto, Open Sans, IBM Plex Sans, Lato, Source Serif 4, Merriweather, Libre Baskerville, JetBrains Mono and Inconsolata - Five layout themes: GitHub, Clean, Academic, Compact and Contrast - Body size from 8 to 16 pt and line height from 1.2 to 2.0 - Page sizes A3, A4, A5, US Letter and US Legal, portrait or landscape - Narrow, normal or wide margins - Body, heading, link and accent colours, with eight presets - Optional title page, table of contents, page numbers, heading rules and code wrapping - Custom header and footer text ## What people use it for - Turning a ChatGPT or Claude answer into something you can send on - Exporting a README or specification for review - A Markdown résumé you can keep in version control - Meeting notes and status reports - Course notes and technical documentation - Anything you would rather not paste into a word processor ## Frequently asked questions ### Is it really free, with no watermark? Yes. Every PDF is watermark-free and there is no page limit, no account and no payment. The project is funded by advertising, and the download is never gated behind one. ### Do I need to create an account? No. Your document stays in your browser between visits using local storage, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to lose access to. ### Is my document uploaded or stored anywhere? It is sent to the server only at the moment you click Download, because the PDF is produced by a real browser engine. It is never written to disk or to a database, and it is discarded as soon as the file is returned. ### Will the PDF look like the preview? Yes, by construction. The preview and the PDF are produced by the same renderer, and the preview sheet is the real page width with the real margins at the real point size, so line breaks match. ### Does it support Mermaid diagrams and LaTeX maths? Both. Mermaid flowcharts, sequence, class, state, ER, Gantt and pie charts are drawn as vector graphics, and maths is typeset with KaTeX. Diagram labels are measured after the fonts load, so text is not clipped inside its box. ### Can I change the fonts, colours and page size? Yes. Ten typefaces, five layout themes, body and heading colours, A3 to A5 plus US Letter and Legal, margins, orientation, page numbers, an optional title page and an optional table of contents. ### What happens to my headings in the PDF? They become real PDF bookmarks, so a long document can be navigated from the sidebar of any PDF reader. The file is also tagged, which is what screen readers use. ### Does the editor scroll with the preview? Yes. Both panes stay on the same content as you scroll, matched through the source line each block came from rather than by scroll percentage. You can turn it off with the Scroll lock button. ### Can I convert a .md file directly? Drag the file onto the page, or use Open in the toolbar. Files up to 2 MB are accepted, which is far larger than most documents. ### Does it work with Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Arabic text? Yes. Non-Latin scripts fall back to fonts chosen specifically because they embed correctly in a PDF, which is a common failure point in other converters. ## Privacy Documents stay in the browser while being edited and are saved to local storage so they survive a refresh. Markdown is sent to the server only at the moment a PDF is requested, because the file is produced by a real browser engine. It is never written to disk or to a database, and it is discarded as soon as the PDF is returned. --- MD to PDF Converter — https://www.mdtopdfconverter.com