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TXT to PDF converter

Convert text files to PDF

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Unlike the document conversions that photograph a rendered page, this one writes real text operators into the PDF. jsPDF sets Helvetica at 11 pt, measures the text against a 170 mm column, breaks it into lines and places them 6 mm apart down an A4 page with 20 mm margins, starting a new page after the forty-second line. Because the glyphs are text rather than pixels, the result is selectable, searchable, copyable and readable by screen readers, and the file stays small: a long text file usually produces a PDF of a few tens of kilobytes.

Key facts about TXT to PDF converter

Key facts about TXT to PDF converter
WriterjsPDF 4.2 writing text operators directly. No rendering, screenshotting or rasterising is involved anywhere.
Text layerReal, embedded text. You can select, copy, search and index the PDF, and a screen reader can read it aloud.
Page setupA4 portrait at 210 by 297 mm, 20 mm margins on every side, giving a 170 mm wide text column.
TypographyHelvetica regular at 11 pt with 6 mm line spacing, which fits 42 lines to a page. No other font is offered.
Line wrappingHandled by splitTextToSize against the column width, producing roughly 85 to 95 characters per line.
Character supportWindows-1252 only. Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, CJK and emoji do not render, because the font is not embedded.
TabsNot expanded into stops, so a tab-aligned table will not line up. Convert tabs to spaces beforehand.
Page furnitureNo page numbers, header, footer or title page are added. The text starts at the top of page one.
Typical size deltaA 100 KB text file usually becomes a 60 to 120 KB PDF, since only the standard font reference is stored.
Input acceptedA .txt file from the picker or drag and drop. There is no paste box for this pair.
Opens natively inEvery PDF reader, plus browsers, e-readers, and any indexing pipeline that extracts text from PDFs.

What happens to your file

The text file is read with the File API and handed to jsPDF, which builds the document as a byte string inside this tab. Nothing is rendered into a canvas, nothing is uploaded, and no fonts are fetched, because Helvetica is one of the standard faces every PDF reader already provides. The finished document is emitted as a Blob and downloaded through a local object URL. Since the conversion writes your text verbatim into the file, it is worth knowing that the text never travels further than your own browser.

About this tool

  1. 1

    Add the text file

    Drop a .txt onto the panel or click to browse. Up to twenty files can be converted in one run.

  2. 2

    Prepare the content

    Replace tabs with spaces and check the encoding if the file contains anything beyond Western European characters.

  3. 3

    Convert

    jsPDF measures and wraps the text, fills each A4 page with 42 lines and starts a new page automatically.

  4. 4

    Download

    Save the PDF, or take a multi-file conversion as a single ZIP assembled inside the browser.

  5. 5

    Verify the text layer

    Open the result and try selecting a sentence. It should highlight as text, not as part of an image.

Specs & compatibility
Input and outputTakes .txt (text/plain) and returns the PDF as a blob with the application/pdf type, named after the file you dropped in.
EnginejsPDF 4.2.0 writes the PDF text operators directly from your .txt, wrapping each line with splitTextToSize - no screenshot stage is involved.
ModesFile mode only: TXT to PDF has no paste box, so the TXT arrives through the picker or a drag and drop and the PDF comes back as a download.
Batch and capsTwenty TXT files per run at 500 MB each; several PDF results are zipped in page memory as converted-pdf-files.zip.
Browser and deviceTXT to PDF needs only the File API, a Blob download and the parser already in the bundle, so every current browser behaves the same and the page keeps working with the network off.
  • This is the right conversion when the PDF has to be searchable. Every other document target on the site renders to a bitmap, while this one writes genuine text operators.
  • Pre-wrap source code or log files to about 90 characters. Automatic wrapping ignores indentation, so deeply nested code loses its shape at the fold.
  • Tab-separated data will not line up because tab stops are not implemented. Expand tabs to spaces first, or convert the data to a table elsewhere.
  • Non-Western text silently fails to appear rather than showing boxes, because the built-in Helvetica has no glyphs for it. Convert such files to PDF from a word processor instead.
  • No page numbers are inserted. For a document that will be printed and handed around, add them afterwards with a PDF page-numbering tool.
  • Turn a README, a licence or a set of release notes into a distributable PDF that still works with search and copy.
  • Archive log excerpts or transcripts in a fixed-page format that a document management system can index by content.
  • Produce a printable copy of plain-text notes without opening a word processor or installing any software.
Yes. jsPDF writes the characters as text drawing operations with a reference to the standard Helvetica face, so your reader sees real text rather than a picture of it. That means selection, copy and paste, full-text search, indexing by a document system, and screen-reader access all work normally, which is not true of the Word, HTML and Markdown routes on this site.
The document relies on Helvetica, one of the standard PDF faces, which is encoded with Windows-1252 and simply has no glyphs outside Western European characters. Those code points are dropped rather than substituted, so the affected lines come out blank or truncated. For non-Latin scripts, produce the PDF from a word processor that can embed a suitable Unicode font.
Not from this page. The layout is fixed at Helvetica 11 pt, 6 mm line spacing and 20 mm margins on A4, which is a comfortable setting for continuous reading and keeps the tool to a single button. If you need specific typography, paste the text into a word processor or convert it to Markdown and style it there.
Forty-two. The text starts 20 mm from the top, each line advances 6 mm, and a new page begins as soon as the next line would cross the bottom margin. Very long paragraphs are wrapped first, so a single source paragraph can occupy many of those lines and flow across a page break without any special handling.
Yes, as far as the column allows. Existing newlines are respected, and any line too wide for the 170 mm column is wrapped onto continuation lines. What is not preserved is horizontal alignment produced with tab characters, because tab stops are not implemented, so ASCII tables and indented code lose their shape.
Because nothing is embedded. The file contains your text, the page structure, and a reference to Helvetica, which every PDF reader supplies itself. There is no font data, no image and no rasterised page, so the result is typically comparable in size to the original text file rather than several times larger.

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