a2pdf

HTML to PDF.

Paste HTML, get a PDF. Either normalize to a clean a2pdf theme, or check "preserve source" to render the HTML exactly as written. Built on headless Chromium, so what you'd see in a browser is what you get on paper.

Preserve or normalize Chromium-based Inline CSS supported No signup
Format pre-set to HTML for this page.
PDF settings
Paste HTML to begin.

Normalize, or preserve — your call

HTML-to-PDF has two flavors and a2pdf supports both.

Normalize (default)

Your HTML is converted to Markdown first, then re-rendered with one of four typographic themes. You get the content of the page in a clean, opinionated layout. Useful when the source styling is generic or ugly and you want something better.

Preserve source styling

Tick the "Preserve" checkbox in PDF Settings. Your HTML — including its own <style> blocks and inline CSS — gets rendered as-is via headless Chromium. You're effectively printing the page to PDF, with only the @page rule injected for paper-size control.

What about external resources?

For pasted/uploaded HTML, external resources (images, stylesheets, fonts via CDN) aren't pre-fetched — the rendering happens server-side from a data: URL. If you need a "screenshot of a live webpage" PDF instead, use the URL mode (or the dedicated webpage to PDF page), which navigates to the real URL and grabs everything.

Use cases

Developers

If you want to drive this from code:

curl -X POST https://a2pdf.com/convert \
  -F "text=<h1>Hello</h1><p>World</p>" \
  -F "format=html" \
  -F "theme=business" \
  -F "preserve=0" \
  -o output.pdf

Set preserve=1 to keep your CSS intact. See the full HTTP API docs or the MCP server for AI-agent integration.