Type or paste text, choose the page, and download a properly paginated PDF.
Text to PDF Converter
Type or paste text, choose the page, and download a properly paginated PDF.
The Text to PDF Converter runs entirely in your browser. Handover notes and drafts often hold things you would not paste into a web form, so nothing you type is uploaded.
There is a gap between having some text and having a document you can send. A note, a set of minutes, a licence, a block of log output: it reads fine in an editor, but the moment it has to be attached to an email or filed somewhere it needs page breaks, margins and a font that behaves. This tool closes that gap. Paste the text, give it a title if you want one, choose A4 or Letter, and it lays the words out across as many pages as they need — wrapping long lines, keeping blank lines as paragraph breaks, and starting a new page wherever you put a form feed. The result is a real PDF built on your device, previewed on the page before you save it.
Features
Blank lines become paragraphs; a form feed starts a new page
A4, Letter, Legal or A5, in portrait or landscape
Margin and text size sliders, with sans, serif or monospaced type
Optional document title, drawn as a heading and stored in the file properties
Optional footer line and automatic page numbers
Drop a .txt or .md file to load it straight into the editor
Live preview of the finished PDF before you download it
How to use the Text to PDF
Type or paste your text, or drop a .txt file onto the page
Add a title and author if the document needs them
Set the page size, margins, text size and typeface
Press Create PDF and check the preview
Download the file
Example
Input
Handover notes
The deploy script now runs from CI.
Credentials rotate on the first of the month.
Output
A one-page A4 PDF: "Handover notes" as a heading, two paragraphs beneath it, page number in the footer.
Blank lines are the only formatting you need — everything else is a page setting.
Common errors & troubleshooting
Some characters are missing from the finished PDF. — The built-in PDF typefaces cover Latin scripts. Characters outside them — Devanagari, CJK, Cyrillic beyond the basic range — cannot be drawn and are reported as a count after the build.
Long lines are broken in odd places. — A word wider than the text column has to be split somewhere. Widen the page, shrink the text size, or reduce the margin to give it more room.
Everything came out as one long paragraph. — Single newlines are treated as soft wraps, which is what you want when pasting from an editor. Put an empty line between paragraphs to break them apart.
The file is bigger than expected for a page of text. — Even a one-page PDF carries font metrics and the document structure. A text-only PDF is usually a few kilobytes; if yours is much larger, check that you have not pasted in a very long document.
Frequently asked questions
Does the text I paste here leave my browser?
No. The layout and the PDF writing both happen on your device, so the words never travel anywhere. You can watch the network panel stay quiet while the file is built.
Can I control where the page breaks fall?
Yes — insert a form feed character where you want a new page to start. Everything else flows naturally, filling each page before moving to the next.
Which typeface does the PDF actually use?
One of the standard PDF families: Helvetica, Times or Courier depending on the setting you pick. They are built into every reader, which is why the file stays small and opens identically everywhere.
Is there a limit on how much text I can convert?
Nothing hard-coded, but very long documents take a moment to lay out and the preview will be large. A dropped file over 8 MB is refused so the page stays responsive.
Can I add my own logo or letterhead?
Not here — this tool is deliberately about text. Build the PDF, then stamp a header, a watermark or page numbers onto it with the tools that do that job.
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