Convert .md files to PDF,
properly typeset

A .md file is plain text with a few punctuation conventions — hashes for headings, asterisks for emphasis, pipes for tables. Nothing inside it describes a page. That is why double-clicking one opens a text editor showing the raw symbols, and why pasting it into a word processor gives you a wall of hashes and asterisks rather than a document.

Converting Markdown to PDF means deciding things the file never specified: page size, margins, where a page breaks, what a code block looks like. Most converters make those decisions invisibly, then show you the result only after you have downloaded it.

• Free tiers commonly stamp a watermark across every page, and the watermark text lands in the PDF's text layer, which breaks copy-paste and search
• Page breaks land mid-heading or mid-table because nothing is controlling them
• Bold and italic are synthesised rather than embedded, so the type looks smeared in print
• Diagrams and maths are dropped entirely, or rendered as images that print blurry

Drag the file onto the page or use Open in the toolbar. Files up to 2 MB are accepted, which covers essentially any document. The preview that appears is the real page at the real width with the real margins, so a line that wraps on screen wraps in the PDF. Adjust the typeface, page size and margins if you want, then click Download PDF.

Everything GitHub-flavoured Markdown supports, plus the things most converters quietly drop.

• Tables, task lists, footnotes and nested lists
• Syntax-highlighted code in around 200 languages
• Mermaid diagrams and LaTeX maths, drawn as vector graphics
• Every heading as a real PDF bookmark, so long files stay navigable
• Clickable links, and a tagged file that screen readers can read

Nothing here needs to be learned before it will work — this is an ordinary .md file, and every part of it survives the conversion. The front matter at the top becomes the title page if you switch that on, rather than being printed as a stray horizontal rule. The dollar amounts stay dollar amounts.

---
title: Quarterly Report
author: A. Writer
---

# Quarterly Report

## Summary

Revenue grew **18%** year on year, driven by the $0.99 tier.

| Region | Q3      | Q4      |
|--------|--------:|--------:|
| EMEA   | $41,200 | $48,600 |
| APAC   | $28,900 | $35,100 |

- [x] Figures reconciled
- [ ] Board review

> Costs are quoted per seat, per month.

The panel on the right is the whole of the formatting model; there is nothing hidden behind a paid tier. Every change re-renders the preview immediately, and the preview is the same renderer that produces the file.

• Typeface, body size and line height — the three that decide how many pages you end up with
• Page size and orientation, including A4, Letter and Legal, plus landscape for wide tables
• Margins, from narrow for reference material to wide for anything that will be annotated
• Title page and a linked table of contents, both off by default
• Page numbers, on by default and switchable per document
• Colours for text, headings, links and accents, if the document has to match a house style