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Text to PDFFree text converter to PDF
Text converter to PDF, straight from your browser
Paste or type any plain text, pick a page size and font, and the converter turns it into a clean PDF with every line break and indent preserved. The preview updates live, so you see exactly what you will download.
No signup, no upload, no watermark — the conversion runs on your device.
- Free
- No signup
- Live preview
- 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.
Have your text saved as a file? Convert text files to PDF — drop up to 20 of them, with encoding detected automatically.
How to convert text to PDF
Three steps, a few seconds, nothing to install.
Enter your text
Paste text from any source or type it directly into the editor. There is no character limit — the preview updates live as you go.
Adjust the page layout
Open Page setup to pick A4, US Letter or US Legal, portrait or landscape, a sans-serif, serif or monospaced font from 8 to 16 pt, line spacing, and margins. Toggle page numbers, line numbers or a header with one click.
Download the PDF
Press Download PDF. The file matches the preview exactly: real, selectable text — not an image — so it stays searchable in every reader.
Specifications
| Input | Text pasted or typed in the browser |
|---|---|
| Output | One PDF (version 1.7) with real selectable, searchable text |
| Page sizes | A4, US Letter, US Legal — portrait or landscape |
| Typography | Sans-serif, serif or monospaced, 8–16 pt, single / 1.5 / double spacing, 3 margin widths |
| Extras | Line numbers, page numbers, file-name header, 2/4/8-column tab stops |
| Page limit | 1,000 pages per PDF |
| Character support | Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (Noto subset embedded when needed); CJK, Arabic, Hebrew and emoji are not covered |
| Processing location | Your browser — no text is uploaded to a server |
| Price | Free, no signup, no watermark |
Why convert text to PDF?
Plain text is universal, but it has no opinion about layout. Open the same .txt on a different screen, font or tab width and the lines land somewhere else. A PDF locks the layout: line breaks fall where you placed them, margins stay fixed, and a reader on any device or printer reproduces the same page. That is why meeting notes, receipts, code listings and anything meant to be read as written end up in PDF.
This converter takes your text and lays it out on real pages with the font, spacing and margins you pick. The result is a PDF with selectable, searchable text — not an image — so it remains useful long after the conversion. A typical page comes out under two kilobytes because only characters are stored, not pixels.
A converter with nothing to install
Most text-to-PDF converters ask you to install desktop software or upload your content to a server. This one runs entirely in your browser tab: the JavaScript on this page measures your text against the font you chose, wraps lines, paginates, and writes a valid PDF — all on your own processor. Nothing leaves your device.
Because there is no server round-trip, the conversion is instant for typical documents and scales to 1,000 pages without a timeout. Once the page has loaded, it even works offline.
Questions about this text converter
Is this text converter to PDF really free?
Yes. There is no hidden plan, no trial period, no watermark, and no limit on the number of documents you convert. The tool is free to use every time you visit.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no signup, no login, and no email required. Open the page, paste your text, and download the PDF.
Where is my text processed?
Inside your browser. Your text is never sent to a server, never stored anywhere, and disappears from memory when you close the tab. The only network request during conversion is for a font file when your text contains characters outside standard PDF fonts.
Can I convert text files instead of pasting?
Yes — switch to the Text files tab, or use the dedicated text file to PDF converter, which handles up to 20 files at once with automatic encoding detection and batch download.
Does the converter keep my formatting?
Every line break stays where you put it, blank lines remain blank, and leading spaces and tabs are preserved. Tabs expand to a tab stop you choose (2, 4 or 8 columns), and lines wider than the page wrap at word boundaries while keeping indentation.
What fonts and page sizes can I use?
Sans-serif, serif or monospaced fonts from 8 to 16 pt. Page sizes include A4, US Letter and US Legal in portrait or landscape. Three margin widths and three line spacings let you fine-tune the layout.
Does it handle special characters?
Latin text with diacritics (French, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Vietnamese), Greek and Cyrillic all convert correctly. A Noto font subset is embedded when the built-in PDF fonts cannot cover them. CJK, Arabic, Hebrew and emoji are not supported — those characters are replaced with a question mark and reported by count.
How large a document can the converter handle?
There is no character limit on pasted text. The PDF output caps at 1,000 pages. If your text would exceed that, the converter stops and tells you instead of producing a truncated 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. There is no account for a document to be attached to, and the only request the page makes while converting is for a font file — and only when your text reaches past the fonts every PDF reader already carries.