Convert plain text to a formatted PDF using pdf-lib.js. Upload a .txt file or paste text directly. Choose font (sans-serif, serif, monospace), font size, line height, page size, and margins. Automatic page breaks and line wrapping.
Drop a .txt file onto the upload zone or paste text directly into the input box. The character and line count are shown. Very long texts automatically span multiple PDF pages.
Choose font family (Helvetica sans-serif, Times Roman serif, or Courier monospace), font size (8–24pt), line height (1.0–2.0), page size (A4 or Letter), and margins (top, bottom, left, right in points).
Click Generate PDF. pdf-lib draws each line of text on canvas pages, automatically inserting page breaks when content exceeds the page height. Download the formatted PDF.
pdf-lib includes three standard PDF fonts: Helvetica (clean sans-serif, similar to Arial — good for modern documents and web content), Times Roman (classic serif — good for formal documents, letters, and academic papers), Courier (monospace — perfect for code, log files, and preformatted text). These are the 14 standard PDF core fonts that are embedded in all PDF viewers without needing to be included in the file.
The tool calculates available height per page (page height minus top and bottom margins). For each line of text, it checks if the next line fits within the remaining space. If not, a new page is started and the line continues there. Blank lines are preserved. This ensures text flows naturally across multiple pages without cutting lines mid-word.
Standard ASCII text is fully supported. The pdf-lib standard fonts support Western European characters (Latin-1). For non-Latin text (Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, etc.) or special symbols, the standard PDF fonts cannot render these characters and you will see blank spaces or replacement characters. For Unicode-heavy text, a custom font must be embedded in the PDF.
Yes — choose Courier (monospace) font and the text renders with fixed-width characters, preserving indentation and alignment. For syntax-highlighted code, this tool produces plain text only. For coloured syntax highlighting in PDF, server-side tools like Prism.js with a PDF renderer or Pandoc with syntax highlighting are more appropriate.
This tool converts plain text (.txt) to PDF. Microsoft Word documents (.docx) cannot be directly converted here. To convert Word to PDF: on Windows, use File > Print > Microsoft Print to PDF or File > Save As > PDF. On Mac, File > Print > Save as PDF. Online: Google Docs converts .docx to PDF from the File > Download menu.
This tool handles text files up to approximately 10 MB (several million characters). Very long texts generate multi-page PDFs — a 5000-word document at 12pt typically produces 8–12 pages. For large document batches, command-line tools like pandoc (pandoc input.txt -o output.pdf) are more efficient.
