A PDF service that only runs on your machine
PrintMD’s PDF service turns Markdown into a PDF with one request, and it refuses to be hosted. Why that’s on purpose, and how it stays locked down even on your own computer.
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Custom sizes, one long page and fit to width
Not every PDF is an A4 page. PrintMD’s page options cover a custom size, one continuous page, scaling wide tables to fit and your own margin, and each has an edge case worth knowing.
Print-quality PDFs from a browser
A browser can print any page to PDF, but a document you send someone needs more. How PrintMD gets fonts, page breaks and images right, and what its tests check.
Why I built PrintMD
I write in Markdown, and getting from there to a PDF I’d happily send someone was more work than it should be. So I built an editor that shows the page as I type and exports PDF, Word and PowerPoint from the same text.
