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Text to PDF

Write or paste text here and get a PDF out of it. No file to make first, no account, and the whole thing happens in this tab — useful when you have something in a chat window or a notes app and need it as a document you can send.

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You will get

Portable Document Format

document.pdf

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How to use it

1
Type or paste your text
Paste from anywhere — a web page, a chat, an email, a notes app. Headings, lists, tables and links come across as themselves; the site's own fonts and colours do not, which is what keeps the result clean.
2
Format it however you like
Headings, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, bullet and numbered lists, quotes, code blocks, tables and links — applied straight to the text on screen. There is no markup to learn and no preview to switch to: what you are looking at is the document.
3
Choose the page size, then convert
A4 by default; Letter and the rest are in the settings panel. Press Create PDF and the file downloads. Nothing is uploaded at any point.

Privacy, in plain words

Is it safe? Your document is not uploaded anywhere

What “uploaded” normally means. On most online converters, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website. That copy is what the word “upload” means, and it is the part nobody explains.

What happens instead. This site does not do it. There is no server here that receives files, so your document is read, converted and handed back by the browser you are using right now. It never travels — so there is no copy to store, read, leak or hand over.

Check it yourself in ten seconds

Turn off your Wi-Fi after this page has loaded, then convert a file anyway. It still works, because everything needed is already on your device.

The longer explanation of how this works, and the full detail of what is and is not stored on the privacy page.

Why this matters more than it sounds

A Word file is usually a draft — which means it carries the things that were not meant to be final, and often tracked changes and comments nobody removed. It matters more than it sounds, because of what documents usually are:

Unpublished manuscripts

work whose value depends on it not circulating

Employment contracts

salary, notice periods, restraint clauses

A CV or résumé

home address, phone number, date of birth, full work history

Legal letters and NDAs

privileged material, and named third parties

A file that is never sent cannot be kept, leaked, subpoenaed or used to train anything. That is a property of how this works, not a promise about how carefully it is run.

When this is the right tool

Most PDF advice assumes you already have a document. Often you do not — you have text in a chat window, an email, a notes app or a terminal, and what you need is a file you can attach or print. Making a Word document purely so you can export it is two steps more than the job requires.

It is also the quickest way to get a clean copy of something formatted elsewhere. Paste an article, a set of notes or a table from a web page and the structure survives while the page's styling is left behind.

What the formatting actually does

Each control marks up real structure while you write, and the converter lays that out faithfully in the PDF: headings get their own size and spacing, a bullet list is indented and marked, a table is drawn with its cells and header row.

What does not come across is the structure underneath. The PDF records how the document looks, not what its parts are — so a heading is larger text rather than an entry a reader can navigate by, and there is no outline pane, no tagging, and nothing for a screen reader to announce as a heading. If you need that, use the Word or ODT version of this tool, whose headings are real heading styles.

Headings: Three levels, which is as deep as most documents need. They are set in a clear size hierarchy, but the file records their appearance rather than their level.
Lists: Bulleted and numbered. Numbered lists renumber themselves as you add and remove items.
Emphasis: Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, applied to whatever you have selected.
Blocks: Quotes, fenced code blocks, tables and horizontal rules, all rendered as their real equivalents.

What it will not do

There is no control for typeface, text size or colour on individual words, and that is deliberate rather than unfinished. Those would be per-word styling, and the honest position is that a button which silently does nothing is worse than one that is not there.

Document-level choices — page size and the typeface for the whole document — are in the settings panel beside the editor, because they apply to the finished file rather than to a selection.

Images cannot be placed from the editor. Everything here is text you typed or pasted, which is also why nothing has to be uploaded.

Measured, not estimated

What this tool actually does to a file

Turning pasted text into PDF at the default settings.

It depends entirely on the content: across the samples the result ranged from 2.8× smaller to 2.2× larger, with a middle case 1.3× larger.

Each row is one document, chosen because this tool behaves differently depending on what is inside the file.
Sample	In	Out	Change
An easy clipThe compressible end of the range — a clean tone, or a moving test pattern — where a codec does its best work.	560 B	1.2 KB	2.2×
A hard clipThe other end — pink noise, or dense video grain. Close to incompressible by design, and the worst case for every codec.	6.9 KB	2.4 KB	−65%

Produced by this site's own converter. The same code that runs in your browser, at the same default settings, so these are the bytes you would download.

Samples are generated from a fixed seed rather than taken from real photographs or documents, so the corpus is reproducible and carries no licensing question — and so the numbers predict the shape of your result rather than its exact size. Measured 2026-10-01. The method, and the command that regenerates every figure on this page, are on the how it works page.

About these formats

Accepts

HyperText Markup Language

The markup language of the web.

Extensions: .html, .htm, .xhtml
MIME type: text/html
Best for: Web pages · Email templates · Rich exports
Compatibility: Every browser.

Write or paste plain text or Markdown — Markdown headings, lists, bold and links are rendered. Nothing is uploaded; the document is built in your browser.

Good to know

Text to PDF — questions

Can I make a PDF without Word or Google Docs?

Yes — that is what this page is for. Type or paste the text, apply any formatting you want, and download the PDF. You do not need an office suite installed, and you do not need to sign in to anything.

Will the PDF have selectable text?

Yes. The text is drawn as real text with an embedded font, so it can be searched, selected and copied, and a screen reader can read it. It is not an image of a page.

Does it handle other alphabets?

Yes. Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek and Hindi all render — a Unicode font is fetched the first time it is needed and cached afterwards. If a character has no glyph at all you get a warning naming it rather than a silent blank.

Does formatting survive when I paste from a website?

Yes. Headings, bold and italic, lists, tables and links all come across as themselves. What gets dropped is the site's own styling — its fonts, colours, classes and scripts — which the document formats could not carry anyway, and which is where pasted content usually goes wrong.

How much text can I paste?

Up to 25 MB, which is far more than any realistic document — roughly four million words. The editor shows the size as you type and tells you before you hit the limit.

Does my text get uploaded?

No. The document is built by JavaScript running in this tab, and nothing is sent anywhere. You can test that by disconnecting from the internet before you press convert — it still works.