Convert text to PDF in your browser, no Word required
PDF is still the universal print-ready document format. Every reader on every operating system opens PDFs the same way. Word documents do not, despite Microsoft's best efforts. So when you have plain text that needs to be a PDF (because someone asked for one, or you want a clean shareable copy), this tool handles it in 5 seconds.
How browser-based PDF generation works
This tool uses jsPDF, a small JavaScript library that writes PDF files directly in the browser. Your text is laid out onto pages with the chosen font, font size, and margins, then encoded into a real PDF 1.4 file. The result is downloaded straight to your computer. No server contact, no upload, no upgrade prompt.
The output is a standard PDF that opens in Adobe Reader, Preview on Mac, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, any e-book reader, and any PDF editor. It is also fully selectable and searchable, because the text is stored as actual text inside the PDF (not as an image of text).
Page sizes that matter
A4 is the worldwide standard outside North America. If your audience is in Europe, Asia, Australia, or anywhere else, A4 is the right default. Letter is the standard in the US and Canada and is slightly wider and shorter than A4. If you are unsure, A4 is the safer pick because most printers handle both, while Letter-only printers (rare outside North America) sometimes choke on A4.
Legal is for legal documents and contracts in the US, longer than Letter. A3 is poster-sized for diagrams or large prints. A5 is half the size of A4, useful for booklets, programs, or pocket-sized handouts.
Font choice matters more than people think
Helvetica is a clean sans-serif font that reads well at any size on screen and in print. It is the safe choice for modern documents and is the default. Times is a traditional serif font, useful when you want a document to look like a journal article, an academic paper, or a formal letter. Courier is monospaced, which means every character is the same width. Use it for code, technical specs, or anything where vertical alignment matters.
Font size is a personal preference, but 11 to 12 pt is the standard for body text. 14 pt is large-print friendly. 9 to 10 pt is dense and fits more on a page but can be tiring to read. 16+ pt is for headlines or accessibility.
Manual page breaks for control
When the text overflows one page, the tool starts a new page automatically. But sometimes you want a section to start on a fresh page even if there is room left on the previous one. Type three equals signs on their own line in your text (===) and the tool will treat that as a forced page break. Useful for separating chapters, sections, or distinct documents in a single PDF.
What about non-Latin scripts
This is the one real limitation. The built-in PDF fonts in jsPDF (Helvetica, Times, Courier) only include Latin character sets. They do not include glyphs for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Thai, Bengali, or other non-Latin scripts. If you try to put text in those languages into the PDF, the output may be blank or show question marks for those characters.
For non-Latin scripts, the recommended workflow is different: open the text in a word processor like LibreOffice Writer or Word that has full Unicode font support, then use File > Export as PDF (or Print > Save as PDF on Mac). That uses the system fonts which do include those character sets.
Pairing with other tools
If you have a PDF and want to extract its text first, use the PDF to Text tool, then edit and re-convert here. To merge the new PDF with other PDFs into a single document, use Merge PDF. To put images into a PDF instead of text, use JPG to PDF. To shrink a large PDF after generation, use Compress PDF. The whole workflow stays in your browser end to end.