MD to PDF - Convert PDF online
Conversion Results:
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How to convert MD to PDF:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files on your computer or click the "URL" button to choose an online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox.
2. Choose target format. You can convert all kinds of documents and images to PDF files or convert PDF files to DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, XML, CSV, ODT, ODS, ODP, HTML, TXT, RTF, SWF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PNM and PSD.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click icon to show file QR code or save file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox.
MD vs PDF:
| Name | MD | |
| Full name | Markdown | Portable Document Format |
| File extension | .md, .markdown | |
| MIME | text/markdown | application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdf |
| Developed by | John Gruber and Aaron Swartz | Adobe Systems |
| Type of format | Markup language | Document format |
| Introduction | Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. | The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. |
| Technical details | Markdown has been characterised by an informal specification and a reference implementation for conversion to HTML. Over time, many Markdown implementations have appeared. People developed these mostly driven by the need for additional features on top of the base syntax-such as tables, footnotes, definition lists (technically HTML description lists), and Markdown inside HTML blocks. | The PDF combines three technologies: A subset of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics. A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents. A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate. |
| Associated programs | GitHub | Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Foxit Reader, Ghostscript. |
| Sample file | sample.md | sample.pdf |
| Wikipedia | MD on Wikipedia | PDF on Wikipedia |