Step 1: Transfer your MD files using the button above or by slide and deposit.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Retrieve your converted PDF files.
MD to PDF Conversion FAQ
Is the resulting PDF searchable with real selectable text?
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Yes when the MD contains real text (DOCX, ODT, HTML, TXT, EPUB). Image-based MD produces an image-only PDF; run /pdf-ocr/ afterward to make it text-searchable via optical character recognition. Markdown is plain text with lightweight conventions — hashes for headings, asterisks for emphasis, hyphens for lists.
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. PDF is Adobe’s Portable Document Format from 1993, standardised as ISO 32000 and now the universal fixed-layout document.
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. MD is Markdown, John Gruber’s 2004 plain-text syntax for writing structured documents that stay readable as source.
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.
Can I password-protect the PDF after conversion?
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Not in this tool directly — convert MD to PDF first, then use the /pdf-* tools to add a password, watermark, or restrict editing / printing permissions on the output.
Is my MD file private during PDF conversion?
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Yes. Uploaded MD files are processed on our own conversion servers, no person reviews them, and they are never shared. The upload and the converted PDF are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
