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Text to PDF

Type, paste or open a text file

Text

Type, paste, or open a .txt file. Long text flows onto as many pages as it needs.

Make a PDF from plain text

To turn text into a PDF without uploading it, type or paste it here, or open a .txt file, choose the page size, typeface and text size, and press Make PDF. The pages are set in this browser tab, so a letter, your notes or a statement never leave your device.

How to convert text to PDF

  1. Add your text

    Type, paste, or open a .txt file. A text file can also be dropped onto the text box.

  2. Set up the page

    Choose A4 or US Letter, a serif, sans serif or monospaced typeface, and a text size from 9 to 18 points.

  3. Make the PDF

    Press Make PDF and download the file. Long text flows onto as many pages as it needs.

Plain text, neatly set on pages

  • The PDF holds real text, not a picture of it: it can be selected, copied and searched, and the fonts are inside the file, so it looks the same everywhere.
  • Pages have a 2 cm margin on every side. Lines wrap at spaces, your blank lines and tabs are kept, and no empty page is added at the end.
  • Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters are written exactly, with their accents: English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Greek and many more.
  • Emoji, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Indic scripts can’t be written yet. The page lists the characters it can’t write before it makes anything.
  • It is plain text: one typeface and one size for the whole document, with no bold, headings or pictures. A text file must be plain text in UTF-8.

Questions

Is my text uploaded when I make the PDF?
No. The PDF is made by code running in this browser tab, and the fonts it uses are part of the page. The page is not allowed to send anything to another site, and it keeps working with the network off once it has loaded.
Can I convert a .txt file to PDF?
Yes. Press Open a text file or drop the file on the text box. Its text appears in the box, where you can still edit it before making the PDF.
Can I convert a Word document this way?
No. This tool takes plain text. From a Word document you can copy the text and paste it here, but its formatting, tables and pictures don’t come along.
Can the text in the PDF be copied and searched?
Yes. It is written as real text, letter by letter, so selecting, copying and searching work in any PDF reader.
Which page sizes and typefaces are there?
A4 and US Letter, in portrait. Three typefaces: serif, sans serif and monospaced, from 9 to 18 points.

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