Markdown to PDF — documentation-grade output

GitHub-flavored Markdown rendered with code-syntax highlighting, tables, and footnotes. Ideal for technical docs, reports, READMEs.

Hosted in Frankfurt & Paris
GDPR-compliant

GitHub-flavoredShiki highlighting180+ languages

Why convert Markdown to PDF?

Authoring-friendly source

Markdown is plain text — version-controllable, AI-generatable, easy to edit. No WYSIWYG learning curve, no proprietary file format.

Developer-grade rendering

Code blocks render with syntax highlighting (Shiki). Tables, footnotes, task lists, and admonitions all work out of the box.

Reuse READMEs and changelogs

Pipe your README.md, CHANGELOG.md, or generated docs straight to PDF for distribution, archive, or compliance binding.

How Markdown-to-PDF rendering works

1. Send Markdown source

POST your Markdown string. Optional: pass a custom theme name or override individual CSS variables (font, code theme, link color).

2. We parse and style

GitHub-flavored Markdown parser converts to HTML, Shiki tokenizes code blocks, our default theme applies typography rules.

3. PDF render via Chromium

The styled HTML is rendered to PDF using our standard render pipeline — fonts cached, page breaks respected.

What is the pdf.xhub Markdown-to-PDF API?

An opinionated Markdown-to-PDF renderer built for technical content: docs, reports, post-mortems, READMEs. Sensible defaults out of the box, full customization when needed — and a natural fit alongside URL-to-PDF for capturing rendered output.

Try it in your stack

Same endpoint. Copy as cURL, call from any language.

GitHub-flavored Markdown to PDF. Code highlighting, tables, and footnotes work out of the box — perfect for docs, reports, READMEs.

curl -X POST https://api.pdf.xhub.io/v1/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PDFXHUB_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "source": "markdown",
    "markdown": "# Invoice\n\nThank you for your business."
  }' --output invoice.pdf

curl -X POST https://api.pdf.xhub.io/v1/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PDFXHUB_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "source": "markdown",
    "markdown": "# Invoice\n\nThank you for your business."
  }' --output invoice.pdf

Features at a glance

Markdown features

GitHub-flavored Markdown (CommonMark + GFM)
Shiki-powered syntax highlighting (180+ languages)
Tables, footnotes, task lists, admonitions
Math via KaTeX (optional)
Mermaid diagrams (optional)

Authoring

Custom themes (default, GitHub, minimal, custom CSS)
Auto-generated table of contents
Frontmatter for page metadata (title, author, date)
Multi-file rendering (concatenate Markdown files)
GDPR-compliant by default — DPA + SCCs included

Platform

EU hosting (Frankfurt + Paris)
Shiki tokenizer with 180+ languages bundled
Auto-cached web fonts + Google Fonts mirror
Edge-runtime: PDF returned in single round-trip
OpenAPI 3.1 — generate clients for any language
Per-render telemetry (page count, render time)

Other ways to render

Same API, different inputs.

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