Convert Markdown to PDF — Free, in Your Browser

Markdown is the lingua franca of documentation, READMEs, notes, and quick drafts. It’s plain text. It’s portable. Every dev tool reads it. But the moment you need to share a clean copy with someone who doesn’t live in a Markdown editor, you need a PDF. Signegy converts .md files (or pasted Markdown source) to PDF right in your browser — no upload, no signup, no Pandoc to install.

How to Convert Markdown to PDF with Signegy

1. Open the tool above. No login.
2. Pick Paste Markdown to type or paste source directly, or Upload .md to drop a file. Both work the same way.
3. As you type or after the file loads, the right-hand pane renders the Markdown live with sensible typography — serif headings, monospace code blocks, bordered tables, indented blockquotes.
4. Edit on the left, watch the preview update on the right. When the preview looks right, click Download PDF.
5. The PDF downloads to your device using the same base filename as your .md (or document.pdf if you pasted).

That’s it. From paste-to-PDF in about three seconds for a typical README-sized document.

What Renders

This tool runs three open-source libraries in your browser:

1. marked parses your Markdown source into HTML. We pass gfm: true, so all GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions are on by default.
2. The HTML is injected into a styled preview pane with a curated stylesheet (readable serif body, JetBrains Mono code, blue links, dark code blocks, ruled tables).
3. html2pdf.js (which wraps html2canvas + jsPDF) screenshots that styled preview and writes the result into an A4-paginated PDF.

The supported Markdown surface, concretely:

• Headings — # through ######, all six levels styled distinctly.
• Paragraphs and inline formatting — **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~, [links](url).
• Lists — bulleted (-, *), numbered (1.), nested arbitrarily, plus GFM task lists (- [ ] and - [x]).
• Tables — pipe syntax with optional alignment markers; the renderer adds borders and a dark header row.
• Code — inline `code` and fenced ``` blocks with a dark background and monospace font.
• Blockquotes — left-bordered with italic body text.
• Images — ![alt](url) with max-width: 100% so they scale to the page.
• Horizontal rules — --- rendered as a thick black line.
• Autolinks — bare URLs become clickable.

Honest Limits

A few things this tool does not do, deliberately:

• No LaTeX/KaTeX. Math equations require a separate library (~270KB) most users don’t need. If you write math, render to HTML upstream and use the HTML to PDF tool.
• No syntax highlighting. Code blocks are monochrome. Adding highlight.js would bloat the page for everyone. Pre-render to coloured HTML elsewhere if you need it.
• No automatic table of contents. Some Markdown processors auto-generate TOCs from [[toc]] directives. We don’t. Write your TOC manually as a list of links if you need one.
• No raw HTML execution. You can mix HTML into Markdown, and most tags will render — but <script> tags don’t run, by design.
• No footnotes plugin. Standard CommonMark footnotes aren’t part of GFM. The [^1] syntax shows as plain text. Use links instead.

If any of these become recurring requests, we’ll add them as opt-in toggles. Until then, the tool stays small and fast.

When This Tool Is the Right Choice

Sharing a README or technical doc with someone who doesn’t read Markdown. Convert once, send the PDF.

Notes from Obsidian, Bear, iA Writer, Typora. Drop the .md file straight in, no plugin chain.

Quick proposal or memo drafts. Markdown is faster to write than rich text; PDF is what you actually send.

Privacy-sensitive content. Strategy docs, draft contracts, anything internal. Signegy never sees your file.

Working from any device. Chromebook, iPad, locked-down work laptop — any modern browser.

When Pandoc or a Static Site Generator Beats This Tool

If you’re publishing a book, generating thousands of PDFs from CI, or need precise control over typography (custom font embedding, ligature kerning, mixed page sizes), use Pandoc. It’s the right tool for that job. Signegy is for the document you have open right now that you’d like to convert in three seconds without installing anything.

Pair With Other Free Tools

Once you have a PDF, chain it through the rest of the toolkit:

• Sign PDF online to add an electronic signature with a free verifiable audit certificate.
• Compress PDF if the output is bulky after a long Markdown doc with lots of inline images.
• Merge PDFs to staple your converted Markdown onto a cover page or appendix.
• Add a watermark to mark the export DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL.
• HTML to PDF if your source is HTML rather than Markdown.

Everything stays in the browser. Nothing uploads.

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