TXT to PDF

• Server logs. Share a snapshot with a teammate without sending a 10MB log file.
• Code snippets. Export source code for documentation or print.
• Configuration files. Archive an exact-state config in a non-editable format.
• Notes and journals. Plain-text journal entries packaged into a sharable PDF.
• Project Gutenberg books. Turn .txt downloads into readable PDFs.
• Email content archives. Pasted email text as a permanent record.
• Recipe and reference cards. Print-ready PDF from a plain text source.

1. Open TXT to PDF.
2. Drop your .txt file or paste text directly.
3. Pick a font family, size, page size, and orientation.
4. Click Convert and download the PDF.

Pagination is automatic — long text wraps and breaks across pages.

UTF-8 is fully supported. If your source file is in a different encoding (Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1, Shift-JIS), convert it to UTF-8 first:

• Mac/Linux: iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 source.txt > out.txt
• VS Code: bottom-right shows current encoding; click to "Save with encoding" → UTF-8.
• Notepad++: Encoding menu → Convert to UTF-8.

Without proper UTF-8, accented characters and non-Latin scripts appear as mojibake (… etc).

• Spaces and tabs — preserved exactly. Use monospace fonts (JetBrains Mono, Courier) for code where alignment matters.
• Line breaks — preserved.
• Soft line wrap — long lines wrap automatically at the page edge.
• No formatting — plain text has no bold, italic, or color, so neither does the PDF output. For formatted text from .rtf or .md, use RTF to PDF or Markdown to PDF.
• No syntax highlighting — code blocks render in monospace but without color.

• Pick a monospace font — JetBrains Mono or Courier preserve alignment for code, ASCII art, tables.
• Pick landscape orientation — code lines often exceed 80 characters; landscape avoids wrapping.
• Use a smaller font size (8–10pt) for long files to keep page count down.
• For syntax highlighting, paste the code into VS Code, export to HTML, then run through HTML to PDF — that's the cleanest path.

• Characters appear as boxes or mojibake. Source file isn't UTF-8. Re-save as UTF-8 first.
• Tab indentation collapsed. Use a monospace font and convert tabs to spaces (4 or 8) before importing.
• Long lines wrap awkwardly. Switch to landscape, smaller font, or pre-wrap the source.
• PDF is many pages from a short file. Check the font size — defaults are often too large for log output. Try 9pt.

Plain-text files often contain things you wouldn't share: source code, server logs with internal hostnames or stack traces, config files with internal endpoints, personal journals. Uploading them to a web converter is a privacy hit. SwissArmyPDF runs conversion in your browser using pdf-lib. Nothing is uploaded; nothing is logged.

• Merge PDF — bundle with other PDFs (cover, attachments).
• Watermark PDF — mark as DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL.
• Sign PDF — sign for sign-off.
• Markdown to PDF — if your source has any structure (headings, lists, code blocks), use markdown instead.