Why convert text to PDF?
Plain text is the most portable format there is, but it does not look like a finished document. A PDF keeps its layout on every device, prints predictably and is accepted by almost every upload form. This converter takes the text you paste, wraps it to the width of the page, splits it into as many pages as needed, adds an optional bold title and page numbers, and gives you a ready-to-share PDF. It runs entirely in your browser with pdf-lib, an open-source library served by this site, so your notes, letters or logs are never uploaded.
How the layout works
Each paragraph is word-wrapped using the real character widths of the chosen font, so lines fill the space neatly without running off the edge. Blank lines in your text are kept as blank lines, which means paragraphs and lists look the way you typed them. A very long word or web address that is wider than the page is broken across lines rather than cut off. The first page leaves room for the title, and every page can show "Page X of Y" centred at the bottom.
Fonts and characters
The converter uses the standard PDF fonts Helvetica, Times and Courier. They are built into every PDF reader, so they add almost nothing to the file size and always display correctly. Courier is a fixed-width font that keeps columns of code, tables made with spaces and log files aligned. The standard fonts cover English and Western European languages, including accented letters such as é, ñ and ü and common symbols like € and the curly quotes. Characters outside that set, such as emoji, Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic, cannot be drawn with them; the tool replaces them with a question mark and tells you how many were affected rather than failing silently.
Tips
- Use 11 or 12 point text for documents that will be printed and read on paper.
- Choose wide margins if the document will be bound or hole-punched.
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