Convert Text to PDF
Paste notes, a letter, a log file or a code listing and download it as a tidy PDF. Long lines wrap, pages break automatically and the text stays selectable and searchable.
- Free
- Runs in your browser
- Selectable text
- No sign-up
How It Works
Make a PDF in three steps.
Paste your text
Line breaks and blank lines are kept as you typed them.
Pick the layout
Font, size, page size, orientation, margins and page numbers.
Create the PDF
Press Create PDF and the file downloads.
What you get from text to PDF
The PDF contains real text, not a picture of it, so it can be searched, selected and read by screen readers, and it stays small. Lines that are too long for the page wrap at word boundaries, a new page starts when one is full, and optional page numbers ("2 / 5") are centred at the bottom. Courier keeps every character the same width, which suits code, logs and tables made with spaces.
Curly quotes, dashes and ellipses are converted to their plain equivalents, and € is written as EUR. For Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Asian scripts or emoji, use a word processor's Save as PDF instead, which can embed a font that has those characters.
Three standard fonts
Helvetica, Times and Courier are built into every PDF reader, so nothing is embedded.
A4 or US Letter
Portrait or landscape, with narrow, normal or wide margins.
Page numbers
Optional numbering in the footer of every page.
Character set
The built-in fonts cover Western European letters only; other scripts are flagged before you create the file.
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Why Use This Converter
A clean PDF from plain text.
Searchable PDF
The text is real text, not an image.
Layout options
Font, size, page size, orientation and margins.
Honest warnings
You are told before downloading if any characters cannot be shown.
Private
The PDF is made in your browser; the text is never uploaded.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions people ask about the Text to PDF converter.
The three standard PDF fonts only include Western European letters. Characters from other scripts, and emoji, cannot be drawn with them. The tool counts them and warns you before you create the PDF.
Open the file in any text editor, copy everything and paste it here. Line breaks are kept.
No. This tool makes a plain-text PDF. For formatted documents, write in Markdown, convert it with Markdown to HTML and print the page to PDF from your browser.
Courier. Every character has the same width, so indentation and columns line up as in your editor.
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