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A free MD to PDF converter. Drag a .md file straight onto the page, or paste the Markdown, and download a clean PDF — no watermark, no account, nothing stored.
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.
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.
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.
Both extensions describe the same thing — plain text written in Markdown. The short form is far more common, because it is what GitHub and most static site generators default to; the longer one turns up occasionally, mostly from tools in the Jekyll and Ruby ecosystem. This converter reads the file's text content rather than trusting its extension, so either works identically, and so does a .txt file containing Markdown.
A few common sources, each with a quirk worth knowing about: an export from Notion, a note from an Obsidian vault, a README or docs folder in a Git repository, or a content file from a static site generator such as Hugo, Jekyll, Astro or Docusaurus. Several of these — Notion exports in particular — put a block of YAML front matter at the very top of the file, between two lines of dashes, listing metadata as key-value pairs. That block is meant for the original system rather than as visible content, and it is recognised here rather than printed, so it will not appear as a stray run of dashes in the output.
Drag the .md file onto this page, or use Open in the toolbar. The preview shows the exact page you will get; click Download PDF to save it. No account and no upload step are involved until you ask for the PDF.
Yes, with no watermark, no page limit and no payment. There is nothing to unlock and no paid tier holding back the output.
Not yet — files are converted one at a time. Each conversion takes a second or two, so a handful of documents is quick even one by one.
No. Extensions are treated case-insensitively, so a file named README.MD is handled exactly the same as readme.md, and the file picker accepts both.
Yes. The editor draws no distinction between pasted text and an opened file, so copying Markdown source from anywhere — a chat, a Notion page, a terminal — and pasting it in works the same as dragging a .md file onto the page.
Nothing functional — both run the same converter with the same options. This page exists for people searching specifically for “.md to PDF” rather than the broader “Markdown to PDF” phrase, and its copy answers the questions that phrasing tends to come with.