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You certainly can create high quality printable PDF's. Check out this example: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/94002/postmortem/docs/EmeryRoe/out/article.pdf https://dl.dropbox.com/u/94002/postmortem/docs/EmeryRoe/out/... This was generated using Markdown run through Pandoc (which the OP is using) which was configured to target a LaTeX template which then converts to a very nicely formatted PDF. The key to moving from Markdown to PDF is to have a nice LaTeX template to format the content generated from Markdown.