Zerdo – Book-Grade Markdown to PDF
Markdown to PDF without Pandoc or cloud uploads
What it does
Markdown to PDF sounds simple — until you try to publish a book, manual, or professional document. MDPDF was built to solve the real problems: broken spacing oversized images unpredictable layouts cloud tools uploading your content MDPDF focuses on one thing: turning Markdown into clean, predictable, print-ready PDFs — fully offline. Why MDPDF? Most tools are great for previews. Very few are suitable for publishing.
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I have always searched for a simple tool which can convert a MD document to a well styled small PDF, just like a GitHub Readme. This was inspired by TinyPDF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968 I also used this project to get familiar with agentic coding, which I had dreaded before. mdpdf supports: - using the included PDF fonts to generate tiny valid PDFs - outputs as A4 or Letter depending on your locale - plenty of common MD syntax: code blocks, inline code, lists, tables, and jpg and png images That's it. It covers probably most of the use cases and can help to…
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