TXT to PDF Converter
Turn a .txt file or pasted text into a clean, paginated PDF: wrapped at the margins, in monospace or serif, on A4 or Letter. Free, no sign-up, and everything runs in your browser.
The PDF is generated locally with pdf-lib. No upload, no account, no watermark.
How the TXT to PDF converter works
Plain text is the most portable format there is, but it prints badly: no margins, no page breaks, no page numbers. This tool typesets your text into a proper PDF document in your browser. It reads your file as UTF-8, wraps every paragraph at the margin using the real glyph widths of the chosen font (so wrapping is exact, not a rough character count), flows the lines onto A4 or Letter pages, and optionally stamps a centred page number in each footer.
Monospace uses Courier, giving every character the same width: code listings, log files and column-aligned tables stay perfectly aligned. Serif uses Times, a proportional font that looks like a normal printed page and fits more words per line. Font size is adjustable from 8 to 24 points, and your paragraph breaks are preserved exactly.
Character support, honestly: the PDF is built with the standard PDF fonts, which encode Western European text (plain ASCII plus accented characters like é, ü, ñ and common punctuation). Characters outside that set, such as Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari or emoji, cannot be drawn by these built-in fonts and are replaced with a question mark; the tool counts and reports any replacements rather than failing silently. For fully multilingual PDFs you would need a tool that embeds a Unicode font.
Tips for best results
| Situation | What to do |
|---|---|
| Code, logs or column-aligned data | Choose monospace; alignment is preserved exactly |
| Letters, essays or reports | Choose serif at 11 or 12pt for a printed-document look |
| Accented Western text (café, naïve) | Works out of the box: WinAnsi covers Latin-1 accents |
| Text with Chinese, Arabic or emoji | Those characters become question marks; the result panel tells you how many were replaced |
| Long lines that must not wrap | Reduce the font size; wrapping is exact to the glyph width |
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert a TXT file to PDF?
Drop a .txt file onto the upload area (or paste your text into the box), pick a font, size and paper format, and click Convert. The text is wrapped at the margins, paginated automatically, and downloaded as a clean PDF. Paragraph breaks in your text are preserved.
Which characters are supported?
The PDF is built with the standard PDF fonts, which encode the WinAnsi (Western European) character set: plain ASCII plus accented Latin characters like é, ü and ñ, and common punctuation. Characters outside that set (for example Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari or emoji) cannot be drawn by these fonts and are replaced with a question mark; the tool counts and reports every replacement instead of failing silently. This is an honest limitation of the built-in PDF fonts.
What is the difference between monospace and serif output?
Monospace (Courier) gives every character the same width, which keeps code, logs and column-aligned data readable. Serif (Times) is proportional and looks like a normal printed document, fitting more text per line. Both wrap at the same margins and paginate identically.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The PDF is generated locally in your browser with pdf-lib. Your text never leaves your device, and the tool works offline once the page has loaded.
How much text can I convert?
There is no fixed limit. Thousands of lines across hundreds of pages convert fine, since everything happens in your browser's memory. Extremely large files (tens of megabytes of text) may take a few seconds.