Markdown to PDF

Markdown has become the lingua franca of structured text on the web — documentation, READMEs, blog post drafts, note-taking apps, technical specifications. It's plain text, so it's diff-able, version-controllable, and editable anywhere. But sharing it as raw text loses the visual structure that makes Markdown readable. Converting to PDF preserves the structure (headings, lists, tables, code blocks) in a portable, view-anywhere format.

The CommonMark spec is the de facto standard for Markdown syntax. It defines exactly how headings (#), lists (-, *), emphasis (*, _), code blocks (```), blockquotes (>), and links parse. GitHub Flavored Markdown extends CommonMark with tables, task lists, strikethrough and a few other features. Together, those two specs cover the vast majority of real-world Markdown.

When you convert, the PDF preserves your Markdown's structure as styled PDF elements: H1 becomes a large bold heading, H2 a slightly smaller bold heading, lists become bulleted or numbered lists, code blocks become monospace blocks with a light background, tables become real tables with column alignment. The result reads like a properly typeset document, not a wall of text.