Developer Guides & Tutorials
Guides for working with Markdown, PDF conversion, and developer tools
Excel to Markdown Table: Convert Spreadsheets Without Add-ins
Copy cells from Excel or Google Sheets and turn them into a clean Markdown table in seconds — no add-ins, no uploads. Here's the workflow, what survives conversion, and the fixes worth knowing.
DOCX to Markdown: How to Convert Word Documents to Clean Markdown
Convert .docx Word files to clean Markdown in seconds. Here's how mammoth.js extracts the structure, how turndown renders GFM, and what to fix in the output before using it.
Migrating Word Documents to Markdown for GitHub and Docs Sites
Moving content from Word into a GitHub repo, wiki, or static site generator? Here's the conversion workflow, the post-conversion fixes that matter, and the GitHub-specific quirks to watch for.
How to Convert Word Documents to Markdown for Obsidian
Obsidian vaults store notes as plain .md files, but Word's .docx format can't open directly. Here's the conversion workflow, what Obsidian-specific syntax to add after conversion, and the fastest path using the Docxer plugin.
How to Convert Messy HTML to Clean Markdown
Word exports, Confluence pages, and WYSIWYG editors produce HTML full of inline styles and nested divs. Here's what gets cleaned up automatically, and what doesn't.
How to Convert HTML to Markdown for CMS Migration
Migrating from WordPress, Confluence, or any HTML-based CMS to Notion, Ghost, Astro, or Hugo? Here's what converts cleanly, what doesn't, and the step-by-step process.
Converting HTML to Markdown for GitHub READMEs and Wikis
GitHub renders only a sanitized subset of HTML in READMEs and wikis. Here's why Markdown is the better default, what HTML actually survives, and how to convert cleanly.
How to Convert a Markdown Resume to a Word Document
Write your resume in Markdown, keep it version-controlled, then convert it to a real Word document, with a copy-paste template included.
Markdown to DOCX: How to Generate a Real Word Document From Markdown
Markdown to DOCX only converts cleanly when the output is genuine Office Open XML, not HTML wrapped in a Word shim. Here is how real conversion works.
How to Convert Markdown to HTML for Email Templates
Converting Markdown to HTML is step one. Here's why your email breaks in Outlook or Gmail if you skip step two, CSS inlining, and how to do both.
Markdown to HTML Online: The Complete Conversion Guide
How Markdown to HTML conversion actually works, when to use snippet vs. full-document output, and what survives the conversion across tools and use cases.
Using Markdown to HTML Conversion for Static Sites and Docs
Static site generators convert Markdown to HTML automatically at build time. Here's when you need raw HTML instead, and how to get it for one-off pages.
Converting Technical Documentation From Markdown to Word
Converting API docs and technical guides from Markdown to Word for stakeholder review? Here's what survives the conversion and what doesn't.
Best Markdown to PDF Converter (2026 Guide)
A feature-by-feature comparison of the best Markdown to PDF converters: MDTool, Dillinger, CloudConvert, and Pandoc. See which tool handles code blocks and diagrams.
GitHub README to PDF: Developer Guide
Learn how to convert any GitHub README to PDF while preserving code blocks, badges, tables, and diagrams. A step-by-step guide for developers, no signup.
Why Markdown Tables Break in PDF Exports
Markdown tables are a common cause of broken PDF exports. Learn why they fail, what correct output looks like, and how to fix every table rendering problem.
Markdown to PDF Code Blocks: Why They Break
Discover why code blocks break in most Markdown to PDF converters and learn the exact steps to get syntax-highlighted, perfectly formatted code in your PDFs.