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Free online text to PDF converter

Text to PDF in seconds

Text to PDF is a free converter for plain text: paste or type into the box, or drop up to 20 text files, and download a PDF that keeps every line break, blank line and indent where you put it. It needs no signup, adds no watermark, and the text inside the PDF stays searchable and selectable.

The preview redraws as you type, so the file you download is the one you already read.

  • Free
  • No signup
  • Up to 20 files
  • A4, Letter or Legal
  • Searchable text

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Page setupA4 portrait · Sans-serif 11 pt · 1 in margins

Clean on screen — the default for notes and prose.

Already have the text saved on disk? Convert text files to PDF — drop up to 20 of them, separately or merged into one document.

How to convert text to PDF

Three steps, a few seconds, nothing to install.

  1. Paste your text, or drop your files

    Type or paste into the box on the Paste text tab. For whole files, switch to Text files and drop up to 20 of them — .txt, .log, .md, .csv, .json, .srt or anything else that is plain text, 3 MB each.

  2. Choose the page setup

    Open Page setup for A4, Letter or Legal, portrait or landscape, a sans-serif, serif or monospaced font between 8 and 16 pt, and margins from half an inch to an inch and a half. Line numbers, page numbers and a filename header are a checkbox each.

  3. Download the PDF

    The preview is the finished document, so pressing Download PDF keeps exactly what you just read. A batch saves as separate PDFs or one .zip — or, with Merge into one PDF ticked, as a single document where every file starts on a fresh page.

Specifications

InputText pasted or typed in the browser, or plain-text files (.txt, .log, .md, .csv, .json, .srt, …)
OutputOne PDF (version 1.7) per document, or one merged PDF, with real selectable text
Page sizesA4, US Letter, US Legal — portrait or landscape
TypographySans-serif, serif or monospaced, 8–16 pt, single / 1.5 / double spacing, 3 margin widths
ExtrasLine numbers, page numbers, file-name header, 2/4/8-column tab stops
Limits20 files per batch, 3 MB per file, 1,000 pages per PDF
Character supportLatin, Greek and Cyrillic (Noto subset embedded when needed); CJK, Arabic, Hebrew and emoji are not covered
Processing locationYour browser — no text or file is uploaded to a server
PriceFree, no signup, no watermark
Works offlineYes, once the page and the converter have loaded

Questions about converting text to PDF

How do I convert text to PDF for free?

Paste your text into the box on this page and press Download PDF — that is the whole process, and it costs nothing. There is no account to create, no email to hand over, no watermark on the result, and no cap on how many documents you convert.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. The conversion runs inside your browser tab, so the text you paste and the files you drop never reach a server. The only thing this site fetches while converting is a font file, and only when your text uses characters the standard PDF fonts do not cover.

Does the PDF keep my line breaks, tabs and blank lines?

Yes: a line in your text is a line in the PDF, blank lines stay blank, and leading spaces survive. Tabs expand to a tab stop you pick (2, 4 or 8 columns), a form feed character starts a new page, and a line too wide for the page wraps at a word boundary and keeps the original line's indentation.

Can I convert or merge several text files at once?

Yes — up to 20 files per batch, 3 MB each. Every file becomes its own PDF, saved one at a time or together as a .zip; tick Merge into one PDF and you get a single document instead, each file starting on its own page with page numbers running through the lot.

Which page size and font does it use by default?

A4 portrait, 11 pt sans-serif, 1-inch margins and page numbers in the footer. US Letter and US Legal are one click away, as are landscape pages, serif and monospaced fonts, sizes from 8 to 16 pt, three line spacings, three margin widths, line numbers and a header carrying the file name.

Does it support Cyrillic, Greek or accented characters?

Yes. Latin text with diacritics — Polish, Czech, Turkish, Vietnamese — plus Greek and Cyrillic all convert, with a subset of the matching Noto font embedded when the built-in PDF fonts cannot cover them. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and emoji are not covered: those characters come out as a question mark, and the converter reports how many there were rather than leaving you to spot empty boxes.

Is the text in the PDF searchable and selectable?

Yes. Every line is written as real PDF text rather than a picture of text, so a reader's search finds it, you can copy it back out, and a screen reader can read it aloud. It is also why a page of plain English text usually comes out under two kilobytes.

How do I fit 80-column code or a log file on the page?

Pick the monospaced font at 9 pt on A4 with normal margins: that fits 83 characters per line, so an 80-column listing lands without wrapping. The Page setup panel prints the exact characters-per-line figure for whatever combination you choose, and landscape pages or narrow margins buy more room.

About this converter

Text to PDF is built for the moment you have text — a note, a log, an export, a chapter — and whatever needs it will only take a PDF. It does that one job: no editor to learn, no template gallery, no sign-in wall in front of the download.

Every line is measured against the real metrics of the font it will be drawn in before it is placed, which is why the wrapping in the preview is the wrapping in the file. Ordinary Western text is set in one of the typefaces every PDF reader already carries, so those documents come out a couple of kilobytes small with no font to download; text that reaches past that set — Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese diacritics — gets a subset of Noto Sans, Noto Serif or Noto Sans Mono embedded, holding only the glyphs the document actually uses.

Where the format cannot help, the converter says so instead of guessing. Characters no bundled font can draw are replaced with a question mark and reported by count, box drawing and arrows come with a one-click switch to the monospaced font that has them, and a document that would run past 1,000 pages stops with an explanation rather than handing you a half-finished file.

Where your text goes

Nowhere. The conversion happens in the page you are looking at, on your own processor: your text is never sent to a server, never written to storage, and gone from memory when the tab closes. Nothing about a document is logged, and there is no account for anything to be attached to.