DocsBolt

Markdown to PDF & Word Converter

Paste or upload Markdown, check the live preview, and download it as a PDF or a Word document — what the preview shows is what you get.

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.md, .markdown or .txt · up to 10 MB

Or Paste Your Markdown Content

Preview

Start typing Markdown to see a live preview…

  • MD, MARKDOWN, TXT
  • up to 10 MB per file
  • Only PDF touches a server

What Markdown to PDF & Word does

One editor, two outputs. Paste Markdown or upload a .md file, watch the live preview, and download the same document as a PDF or a Word file. The preview and both exports come from a single reading of your Markdown (GitHub flavour), so the nested list that looks right on screen is the nested list you get in the file — the reason most Markdown converters disappoint is that they preview with one parser and export with another.

It is also an MD to PDF and MD to DOCX converter: paste a README or upload a .md file and convert Markdown to PDF or Markdown to Word online for free.

Markdown to PDF

The rendered document is sent to a DocsBolt server and laid out on A4 with real, selectable text: heading sizes step down from H1 to H6, ordered lists keep their numbering through every level of nesting, task lists show ☑ and ☐, tables get ruled cells with a shaded header, fenced code sits in a tinted monospaced panel, and links are clickable annotations. Images referenced by a public URL are fetched and embedded, scaled to the page width. Cyrillic, Greek, and Chinese, Japanese and Korean text all render; scripts that need complex shaping (Devanagari, Arabic) do not yet.

Markdown to Word (DOCX)

Built in your browser with the docx library — the file never leaves your machine. Headings become Word heading styles, so the navigation pane and a table of contents work; lists use Word's own numbering with a restart for each list and a different marker per level; tables are editable Word tables with a shaded header row; code blocks are shaded Consolas paragraphs; blockquotes carry a left bar; links are live hyperlinks; ~~strikethrough~~ is real strikethrough. Images are embedded when the browser can fetch them (your own site, or any host that allows cross-origin reads) and noted as [image: …] when it cannot.

How it works

  1. 01

    Provide Markdown

    Write in the editor or upload a .md, .markdown or .txt file; the preview on the right updates as you type.

  2. 02

    Select Output

    Pick PDF or Word. The preview is the document that will be exported.

  3. 03

    Convert & Download

    The Word file is built in your browser; the PDF is laid out on the server from the same preview.

Diagram: a MARKDOWN document passes through the converter and comes out as a PDF & WORD document, with its headings, table and picture preserved.MARKDOWNCONVERTPDF & WO

Formats and limits

Accepts
.md, .markdown, .txt
Produces
PDF or DOCX
Files per run
One
Size limit
10 MB per file (the editor holds the whole document)

When you'd use it

  • A README or spec that must be submitted as a PDF
  • Documentation written in Markdown that a manager wants in Word
  • Notes from Obsidian or VS Code that a reviewer wants to comment on in Word

Limitations

  • Raw HTML blocks inside the Markdown are reduced to their text in both Word and PDF.
  • PDF: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and CJK text render; Devanagari, Arabic and other scripts that need complex shaping do not yet — use the Word output for those.
  • Word: images are embedded only when the browser is allowed to fetch them (same site, or a host that permits cross-origin reads); otherwise their alt text is written in their place.
  • Only PDF and Word are offered. For a spreadsheet, paste the tables into Excel; for a web page, most Markdown editors export HTML directly.
  • Footnotes, maths ($…$) and Mermaid diagrams are not rendered in either output.

Questions

Which Markdown features are supported?

CommonMark plus the GitHub extensions people actually use: headings, emphasis, strikethrough, links, images by URL, ordered and unordered lists nested to any depth, task lists, blockquotes, fenced code blocks with language hints, pipe tables with column alignment, and horizontal rules. Footnotes and maths are not.

Why did my nested list come out flat in another converter but not here?

Many converters run Markdown through Python-Markdown or a similar parser that expects four spaces of indentation, while GitHub, VS Code and most editors accept two or three. DocsBolt previews and exports with the same GitHub-flavoured parser, so what indents in the preview indents in the file.

Is my Markdown uploaded?

The Word file is produced entirely in your browser. Only the PDF export sends the rendered document to a DocsBolt server, where it is deleted within 30 minutes.

Can I get a Word document and a PDF from the same Markdown?

Yes. Convert once with DOCX selected, click Convert Again, choose PDF and convert again — the editor keeps your text, and both come from the same preview.

Do images work?

In PDF, images at public URLs are fetched by the server and embedded. In Word, the browser fetches them, which works for images on the same site or on hosts that permit cross-origin access; otherwise the alt text is written in their place. Local files on your computer cannot be referenced from Markdown at all.

Can I edit before exporting?

Yes — the left pane is an editor with formatting buttons and the right pane is the live preview. Edit until the preview is right, then export; you can export the same text to PDF and then to Word without retyping it.

Does the PDF have selectable text and working links?

Yes. It is laid out as text, not printed from a screenshot, so you can search it, copy from it, and click the links. Fonts are embedded, so it looks the same on any device.

What happens to your file

The Word export is built in your browser and never uploaded. The PDF export sends the rendered document to a DocsBolt server over an encrypted connection and it is deleted after 30 minutes.

Full detail in the Privacy Policy.

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