Text to PDF Converter

How to Convert Text to PDF

1. 1

   Add your text

   Type or paste it in the box, or choose or drop a TXT, Markdown or CSV file.

2. 2

   Set the options

   Check the format the tool picked, choose Letter or A4 and turn on page numbers if you want them.

3. 3

   Create and download

   Press Create PDF, look at the preview of the first page and download the PDF.

TXT to PDF

To turn a text file into a PDF, drop the .txt file on the box or paste its contents. Every line stays a line, and long lines wrap at the margin. Blank lines and indentation are kept, and a tab becomes spaces. The text is set in 11 point Helvetica. Typed text works the same way.

Plain text from Notepad, a notes app or a log file all work. Files in UTF-8 are read as they are. Older Windows text files (Windows-1252) and Notepad files saved as Unicode (UTF-16) are recognized too, so accents come out right.

Markdown to PDF

To convert Markdown to PDF, drop your .md file or paste the Markdown. MD to PDF starts from the file type, so a .md file is read as Markdown. Pasted Markdown is recognized by its headings, bold text, links or code fences, and you can switch the Format control to Markdown yourself.

• Six heading levels, bold, italic and strikethrough.
• Links that you can click in the PDF.
• Bulleted and numbered lists, nested too, and task lists with check boxes.
• Block quotes, horizontal rules and tables.
• Code blocks and inline code in a monospaced font, without syntax coloring.
• A picture is not loaded. Its description (alt text) is printed instead.
• HTML tags are dropped and their text is kept. Math formulas and footnotes are not supported.

CSV to PDF

To turn a CSV file into a PDF, drop the .csv file or paste the rows. The tool makes one table. The first row is the header. It is bold and repeats at the top of every page. Column widths follow the content, and columns of numbers line up on the right.

Commas, semicolons, tabs and pipes are recognized as separators, and quoted cells may contain commas and line breaks. A wide table turns the page to landscape and, if needed, uses smaller text. Long cells wrap inside their column. A table can have up to 20 columns.

What the Text to PDF Converter Does

The converter makes a PDF with real text, not a picture of text. You can select, copy and search it, and the file stays small. Page breaks fall between lines. A table row or a line of code is never cut in half, and a heading stays with the text under it.

There is one font and one layout. You cannot choose a font, text size, margins or colors. Only a CSV table turns the page, Markdown tables do not. The file is processed in your browser and is not uploaded. Limits to know:

• Files up to 5 MB on a computer and 2 MB on a phone. The PDF can have up to 1,000 pages on a computer and 300 pages on a phone.
• Latin letters with accents (Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkish, Vietnamese), Greek and Cyrillic work, plus punctuation, currency signs, arrows, math signs, box-drawing characters, check marks and stars.
• Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Indic scripts and emoji cannot be drawn. They are left out, and the tool tells you how many above the button and again next to the result.
• Western European text uses the standard fonts every PDF reader has. Text with other letters, such as Polish, Czech, Greek or Russian, is set in Noto Sans, an open font that the page loads from filewiseapp.com when it is needed and embeds in the PDF. Your text is never sent anywhere.
• Text that runs right to left is not supported.

Convert Text to PDF With Page Numbers

To convert text to PDF with page numbers, turn on the Page numbers checkbox. It is off at the start. Every page then gets a number like 1 / 12 at the bottom center. Choose Letter or A4 for the paper. Letter is the start in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and A4 is the start elsewhere.

If you need text out of a PDF instead, use PDF to text. For text in a photo, try image to text. Once your PDF is made, you can mark it as a draft with a watermark or give each page an ID with Bates numbering.

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