Export to PDF and DOCX

Export a document to PDF, DOCX, Markdown, or HTML.

Product stage: Development build
Last reviewed: 2026-08-27
Successful result: The change is visible in the active project.

What this accomplishes

Export a document, written in Markdown, to PDF, DOCX, Markdown, or HTML.

Citations are covered in citation system.

Current availability

This page documents behaviour verified in Miton development builds. Miton is still pre-release and is not publicly downloadable; invited beta users will receive a signed desktop build with automatic updates.

Before you start

A Miton development build, an active project and Writer open.
A connected model; keep the source material or existing document in the same project.

The four formats

Every export starts from the document’s Markdown source.

PDF. Rendered with a real PDF layout engine — text is selectable, markdown tables render as real PDF tables, and footnote references and their definitions are preserved.

DOCX. A real .docx file, editable in Word, Google Docs, Pages, and LibreOffice. The converter handles heading levels 1–3, bullet lists, and paragraphs; anything else in the Markdown (numbered lists, tables, images) currently falls back to plain paragraph text.

Markdown. The document’s own source, portable to Obsidian, Notion, Typora, or Pandoc.

HTML. A self-contained HTML document (fixed styling, not currently customisable) rendered from the Markdown.

What the export pipeline does not cover

Page size, margins, custom fonts, a cover page, or a table of contents — none of these are configurable today; PDF export uses one fixed layout.
Full DOCX fidelity — the DOCX converter handles headings (1–3), bullet lists, and paragraphs; numbered lists, tables, and images aren’t converted yet.
An export preview or export history — there’s no side-by-side preview before exporting, and no log of past exports to re-run.
Custom format plugins or batch export — the four formats above are fixed, and export runs one document at a time.

What success looks like

You get a working file in the format you asked for, built straight from the document’s own Markdown — recognising that DOCX today is closer to a plain-text-with-headings export than a full-fidelity Word document.

Common failures and recovery

If a DOCX export looks flatter than the document (missing tables, numbered lists, or images), that’s the converter’s current limit — export to PDF or HTML instead if those matter.
Confirm the intended document and project are active.
Check the model connection and retry only the failed action, not the complete document.

Return to the Writer overview to choose the next document task.