July 2025 Endpoint of the Month: Markdown String to PDF

Explore how the "Markdown String to PDF" endpoint maintains a consistent and polished look in digital documents. Effortlessly automate and customize content.

Published
July 3, 2025

In today's business world, maintaining a consistent and professional appearance is crucial. This applies to various forms of communication, including blogs, reports, and presentations. Fortunately, we have a tool that can help maintain consistency and professionalism, and even automate the creation of such documents: the "Markdown String to PDF" endpoint.

What is a Markdown String?

Markdown is a system for adding annotations (tags or codes) to a document to define its structure, formatting, and/or the relationship between its parts. This is also called a lightweight markup language, similar to HTML or rich text.

A Markdown string is essentially a piece of text that uses the Markdown syntax mentioned earlier. Furthermore, in the context of APIs, a Markdown string serves as a variable or data format holding Markdown content that can be processed or transformed into other formats, such as HTML or PDF.

How to Set Up the "Markdown String to PDF"

This endpoint can be used in one of two ways: via an API call or in Make, Zapier, or n8n.

First, enter the text that you would like to convert into a PDF with Markdown formatting into the Markdown String field.

Then, in the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) field, we provide additional instructions on how the document should appear. One example is the color of the headers.

How Does This Feature Benefit You?

  • Markdown provides a straightforward way to maintain consistent formatting across PDFs.
  • The conversion process is typically quick and can be automated.
  • The "Markdown String to PDF" allows customization, such as adding CSS styles to change the document's appearance.

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.