I Rebuilt the Markdown to PDF Converter on tigzig.com. Paste Text, Get a Properly Typeset PDF, or Have Your Agent Do It Over MCP.
Published: August 14, 2026
I have rebuilt the Markdown to PDF converter on tigzig.com. You paste your text or Markdown, you get a properly typeset PDF back, and your AI agent can do the same over MCP or a plain API call. No sign up, no key, free.
Had built this a long time back as a fairly basic thing and then left it alone, and over the last few weeks I could see a rise in traffic.
Took a fresh look and found that lot of it was not rendering. Headings below a certain level were being dropped, nested lists were coming out flat, and code blocks were losing their formatting.
What is there now:
- Page breaks where you want them, using
:::pagebreak:::on a line by itself - Tables, nested lists, task lists and code blocks all render properly
- Greek letters, maths symbols, arrows and the rupee sign come out right
- Emoji and symbols do not break the render
- Plain dot txt files keep their line breaks
Live tool at tigzig.com ➜ Markdown to PDF
- API & MCP docs (humans): mdtopdf.tigzig.com/redoc
- API & MCP docs (AI): mdtopdf.tigzig.com/v1/openapi.json
Where I actually use it
Where I use this the most is automation. I have it running as a service with different configs for different jobs and just plug that in wherever a pipeline needs a PDF at the end, agentic or otherwise.
For offline work I usually have Claude Code or Cowork do it with a set of named configs I keep as a skill. And when I just need something quick, the browser tool.
And by the way, the regular Claude and ChatGPT chat apps can do this directly in chat, no MCP, no API. If that is all you need, use that.
What changed the past few weeks is the volume, on the interface and the APIs both, and the kind of text coming in .. tables, emoji, symbols, the works. So decided to just rebuild it than leave it as the basic thing it was.