TXT to PDF

Paste plain text or open a .txt, .log or .csv file, check the preview, and download a PDF with real, selectable text. Line breaks and spacing are kept exactly, long lines wrap. Free, no signup, no watermark.

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What you get

A text PDF, not a picture: you can search it, copy from it, and it stays small (a few KB per page). Every space, tab and blank line is kept as in your file, so logs, code, configs and fixed-width tables line up. Lines longer than the page wrap instead of being cut off. Accented letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean print correctly, because the PDF is rendered by Chromium with Noto fonts rather than the 14 built-in PDF fonts, which only cover Western European characters.

Which font should I pick?

Font	Best for
Monospace	Logs, code, config files, CSV and anything aligned with spaces. Every character has the same width, so columns stay lined up.
Sans-serif	Notes, emails and lists you want to read on screen.
Serif	Letters, essays and anything you will print.

Convert text files to PDF from code

Turning logs, receipts or generated reports into PDFs in a script or cron job? Wrap the text in a <pre> and send it to the Shotmint PDF API. No Chromium, LibreOffice or font packages to install. Save this as txt2pdf.mjs and run SHOTMINT_KEY=... node txt2pdf.mjs notes.txt:

// txt2pdf.mjs: node txt2pdf.mjs notes.txt  ->  notes.pdf
import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';

const input = process.argv[2] ?? 'notes.txt';
const text = (await readFile(input, 'utf8')).replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;');
const html = `<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8">
<style>pre { font: 10pt/1.45 "DejaVu Sans Mono", monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: anywhere; margin: 0 }</style>
<pre>${text}</pre>`;

const res = await fetch('https://shotmint.creasework.com/v1/pdf', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'X-API-Key': process.env.SHOTMINT_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ html, format: 'A4', margin: '18mm', page_numbers: true }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
await writeFile(input.replace(/\.[^.]+$/, '') + '.pdf', Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer()));
console.log('Saved, credits left:', res.headers.get('x-credits-remaining'));

Options: format (A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5, Tabloid), landscape, margin (like 18mm or 0.75in), page_numbers and footer_template. Each PDF is 1 credit.

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FAQ

Why do characters show as boxes in other converters? Many converters use the standard PDF fonts (Helvetica, Courier), which have no glyphs outside Western European Latin. This tool prints with full Unicode fonts, so Polish, Turkish, Russian, Chinese or emoji text keeps its letters.

Is the text selectable in the PDF? Yes. It is real text, so you can search it with Ctrl+F and copy it back out (try PDF to text).

Can I force a page break? Yes. A form feed character (Ctrl+L, common in old printouts) starts a new page.

Do you keep my text? No. It is sent once to render the PDF and is not stored. The preview never leaves your browser.

Is there a limit? 5 PDFs a day per visitor without a key. Get a free API key for 25 more a month, or buy credits for bulk conversions.

TXT to PDF

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Which font should I pick?

Convert text files to PDF from code

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