Convert TXT to PDF

Open the tool page, upload your .txt file, then click Convert to PDF. The file is sent to the server, where the characters are flowed into a page area using a default font and margins. Long lines are wrapped so nothing runs past the page edge. When the layout is finished, the PDF is returned and you download it. No software install or account is needed.

A plain text file has no formatting to keep. It stores characters and line breaks only, with no font, size, colour or margin data. The converter therefore supplies those values itself, applying one default font and a standard page size. Your line breaks, blank lines and space indentation carry over. Bold, italics or headings cannot carry over because they were never in the source file.

The limit is 50 MB per file. Plain text is compact, so 50 MB of characters is an enormous amount of content, roughly the length of dozens of full novels. Very large uploads take longer because every line has to be measured and placed on a page. If you hit the limit, split the text into sections in your editor and convert each part separately.

Yes. The characters are written into the PDF as real text objects with font and position data, not rasterised into a picture. That means Ctrl+F works, you can select and copy passages, and screen readers can read the content. If you ever need searchable text from a scanned page instead, that requires OCR on a PDF , which is a different process entirely.

Conversion runs on loopdf's EU infrastructure. Your upload is held in memory while the pages are built and is deleted automatically once the PDF is produced. Nothing is kept for later use. Full details are set out on the privacy page and the GDPR page, which explain where processing takes place and what data is handled.

Text files carry no encoding label, so the bytes have to be interpreted. If the file was saved in an older regional encoding, characters such as ä, é or ß can be read as the wrong symbol. The fix is to open the file in your editor, use Save As, and choose UTF-8 before uploading again. UTF-8 covers accented Latin letters and most other scripts consistently.

The two tools start from very different inputs. A .docx file already contains a full layout model: styles, fonts, tables, images, page size and section breaks. Word to PDF reads that model and reproduces it. A .txt file contains none of it, so this converter has to invent the layout, choosing the font, margins and page breaks itself. Same output format, completely different amount of source information.

Yes, as long as the file is saved with a .txt extension. Code and logs are plain text, so every line is placed as written. Be aware that very long lines, common in minified code or verbose logs, will wrap onto the following line rather than scroll horizontally. Syntax highlighting is not added, because colour information does not exist in the source.

The conversion uses a fixed default font and page layout, so there are no typography controls on this page. If you need a specific typeface, column setup or cover page, paste the text into a word processor and export from there, or build an HTML version and run it through HTML to PDF , where CSS controls the rendered result.

Convert each text file on its own, then join the results with Merge PDF , which appends the page objects of each document into a single file in the order you set. The alternative is to concatenate the text in your editor first and convert once, which gives continuous pagination instead of section breaks at each file boundary.

On a server. The text layout and PDF writing happen on loopdf's EU infrastructure, which is why an internet connection is required and why very large files take a moment to process. Server-side handling keeps results consistent across browsers and devices, since the same font metrics and page rules are applied every time rather than depending on what your browser can render.

Text-only PDFs are usually small, but a file with thousands of pages carries font and page structure overhead for every sheet. Running it through Compress PDF trims that overhead and rewrites the internal streams more efficiently. Since there are no images to downsample, the text stays exactly as sharp as before.