Will any formatting be preserved from my text file?

A plain text file has no formatting to preserve in the first place — no bold, no font choice, no paragraph styles. What this tool does preserve is your original line breaks and blank lines exactly as typed; it adds font, size, margins, and page layout on top, and word-wraps any line too long to fit the page width.

Should I use Helvetica or Courier?

Use Helvetica for prose — notes, letters, essays, meeting minutes — where a clean proportional font reads naturally. Use Courier for source code, log files, or anything with columns of data, since a monospaced font keeps every character the same width, which is what makes indentation and column alignment display correctly instead of drifting out of line.

What happens to very long lines, like minified code or long URLs?

Lines that exceed the page width are word-wrapped at the nearest space so the content still fits on the page without cutting a word in half. A single unbroken string with no spaces at all — a long URL or a hash, for instance — may still run past the margin, since there is no natural point to break it without altering the string itself.

Does this preserve tabs and indentation in code files?

Line breaks and the leading whitespace on each line are preserved from the source. For indentation and column alignment to line up visually the way it did in your editor, choose the Courier (monospaced) font — a proportional font will preserve the actual characters but the visual alignment can drift since letters have different widths.

What encoding does the converter expect?

Files are read as UTF-8, which is the standard encoding used by virtually every modern text editor, code editor, and export tool, and correctly covers accented characters, symbols, and most non-English text. A very old file saved in a legacy encoding like Windows-1252 or Latin-1 before UTF-8 became the default may show a small number of garbled special characters.

What page size should I choose, A4 or US Letter?

Use A4 if the PDF will be printed or viewed primarily in Europe, the UK, or most of the world outside North America. Use US Letter for documents intended for printing in the United States or Canada, where Letter is the standard paper size.

Is there a file size limit for large log files?

Files up to 40 MB convert with no account required. Signing up free raises that to 80 MB, and a Pro plan raises it to 250 MB per file. Very large log files with tens of thousands of lines may take a few extra seconds to paginate since the layout is calculated entirely in your browser.

Is my file uploaded anywhere?

No. Reading the text, calculating word-wrap, and rendering the PDF with pdf-lib all happen locally in your browser. This matters specifically for text files, which often contain server logs, configuration values, or draft content that should not be sent to any third-party service.

Can I convert several text files at once?

The tool converts one file at a time so pagination is calculated accurately for each document's content. After a PDF downloads, drop the next file onto the upload zone to convert it.

Can I convert a CSV or JSON file with this tool?

Yes — any plain text file works, including .csv and .json. Keep in mind the output is monospaced or proportional text laid out on a page, not a formatted spreadsheet or a rendered table; for a genuinely tabular PDF from spreadsheet data, a dedicated Excel-to-PDF conversion will generally give a cleaner result.

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What is TXT to PDF?

TXT to PDF turns a plain text file into a paginated, printable PDF document. The conversion looks trivial on the surface — copy some characters, produce a PDF — but plain text is the one common document format that carries no formatting information whatsoever. A .txt file is nothing but a sequence of characters and line-break bytes. It has no concept of a font, a page, a margin, a bold word, or even a paragraph in the way a word processor understands one; a "paragraph break" in a text file is really just two consecutive newline characters, and a word processor's idea of automatic line wrapping does not exist at all — every line break in the source is either something the author typed deliberately or something a previous tool inserted arbitrarily at a fixed column width. Converting text to PDF means the tool has to make every layout decision that the source file simply never recorded: what font to render it in, how large that font should be, where the margins fall, what page size to target, and — critically — whether an overly long line should be wrapped to fit the page or left alone because wrapping it would change what the line means.

That last decision matters more than it sounds. For ordinary prose — notes, letters, meeting minutes — wrapping long lines at the margin is exactly what you want, and it is what this tool does by default: text flows naturally down the page the way it would in any document. But plain text also carries a lot of content where line breaks are structural, not incidental. Source code relies on consistent indentation and column alignment to stay readable; a log file's columns of timestamps, log levels, and messages only line up if every character occupies the same width; a monospaced font is what makes those columns actually line up, because in a proportional font like the one this paragraph is set in, a lowercase "i" and an uppercase "W" take up different amounts of horizontal space and any column alignment built on fixed character counts collapses. That is why this tool offers a genuine choice between Helvetica, a proportional font suited to prose, and Courier, a fixed-width font that keeps code indentation, log columns, and tabular plain-text output aligned exactly as typed.

Encoding is the other place plain text quietly complicates things. A text file has no header declaring what character encoding it was saved in — UTF-8, the modern default that covers virtually every language and symbol, versus older encodings like Windows-1252 or Latin-1 that some legacy tools and very old exported files still use. A file saved in one and read as another can turn ordinary accented letters or curly quotation marks into garbled symbols. This tool reads files as UTF-8, which correctly covers the overwhelming majority of text files produced by any modern editor, terminal, or export tool; a very old file that predates UTF-8 adoption is the one case where you might see an unexpected character.

Because everything — reading the file, calculating word-wrap, laying out pages, and rendering the final PDF with pdf-lib — happens locally in your browser, the text you convert never leaves your device. That is worth mentioning specifically for this format, since plain text is disproportionately likely to contain things people would rather not upload anywhere: server logs with internal hostnames, config files with connection strings, draft notes, or source code under an NDA.

How It Works

The file is read as UTF-8 text and split into lines using its original line breaks — the tool does not try to guess where paragraphs "should" go, it respects the line breaks exactly as they exist in the source. Each line is then measured against the page width using the font and size you choose: lines that fit are placed as-is, and lines that overflow the margin are word-wrapped at the nearest space so no word is cut in half. Because character width differs between fonts, choosing Courier (fixed-width) versus Helvetica (proportional) changes exactly where those wrap points fall, which is why monospaced content like code or logs should generally use Courier to keep its structure intact. pdf-lib then paginates the resulting lines across as many pages as the content needs, based on the page size (A4 or US Letter) selected, and renders the final PDF — all without the file ever being sent to a server.

How to Use

Upload your text file

Drop a .txt, .log, .md, .csv, or source-code file onto the upload zone, or click to browse and select it.

Choose a font

Pick Helvetica for prose and notes, or Courier for code, logs, and anything relying on column alignment, since a monospaced font keeps indentation and columns lined up correctly.

Set the page size

Choose A4 for international printing or US Letter for US/Canada-standard printing.

Adjust the font size

Pick a size from 8pt to 24pt depending on how dense the content is — smaller for long logs you mainly need archived, larger for anything meant to be read comfortably on paper.

Convert to PDF

Click "Convert to PDF". The tool word-wraps any line too long for the page, paginates the full file, and renders it with pdf-lib entirely in your browser.

Download the PDF

Save the resulting file to your device. It is ready to print, archive, attach to an email, or file alongside other records.

Who Uses This Tool

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Log File Archiving

Convert server, application, or build logs to PDF using the Courier font so timestamp and severity columns stay aligned, producing a permanent, easily shared record for non-technical stakeholders or audits.

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Source Code & Config Snapshots

Convert a code file, README, or configuration file to a monospaced PDF to include in documentation, a code review packet, or an archived snapshot of a system at a point in time.

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Plain Text Notes & Minutes

Turn meeting minutes, brainstorm notes, or to-do lists drafted in a plain text editor into a properly paginated PDF for sharing or filing without reformatting them first.

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Printing Scripts & Scratch Text

Convert draft scripts, dialogue, or freeform writing kept in plain text to a paginated PDF with sensible margins before printing or reading on a device that renders PDFs better than raw text.

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Compliance & Audit Records

Convert plain text audit trails, access logs, or exported records into PDF for compliance filing and long-term storage in a format regulators and archivists can open without special tools.

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Assignment & Essay Submissions

Convert an essay or assignment drafted in a plain text editor to PDF when a submission portal requires PDF format rather than accepting a raw .txt file.

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CSV & Data Exports

Convert a CSV export or JSON dump to a monospaced PDF for a quick, shareable snapshot of raw data, without needing to open a spreadsheet application.

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README & Documentation Handoff

Convert a project's plain-text README or CHANGELOG to PDF when handing off documentation to someone outside the development environment where those files are normally viewed.

Why Choose This Tool

Respects Your Original Line Breaks

The converter never guesses at paragraph structure — it preserves your exact line breaks and blank lines, only wrapping lines that are too long to fit the page width.

Monospace Option for Code & Logs

Courier keeps every character the same width, so indentation, tabular log columns, and code structure stay visually aligned instead of drifting the way they would in a proportional font.

A4 & US Letter Support

Standard international and US page sizes are both supported, so the PDF prints correctly regardless of which paper size your printer expects.

Adjustable Font Size

Set the font size from 8pt to 24pt to fit dense logs onto fewer pages, or scale text up for easier on-paper reading.

100% Browser-Based

Word-wrapping and PDF rendering with pdf-lib both happen locally — your text file, which may contain logs, config values, or draft content, is never uploaded anywhere.

Handles Any Plain Text Extension

.txt, .log, .md, .csv, and common source-code file extensions are all accepted directly, without needing to rename or repackage the file first.

Free to Start — Sign Up for More

Use it free with no account for files up to 40 MB. Sign up free to raise your limit to 80 MB, or upgrade to Pro for 250 MB per file.

Key Benefits

100% browser-based — your text file never leaves your device or touches a server

Automatic word-wrap for long lines, without altering deliberate line breaks

Choose Helvetica for prose or Courier for code, logs, and column-aligned text

A4 or US Letter page size, matching international or US print standards

Adjustable font size from 8pt to 24pt to fit dense logs or large-print needs

UTF-8 text handling covers virtually every modern language and symbol set

Accepts .txt, .log, .md, .csv, and common source-code extensions directly

No page limit — long logs and lengthy notes paginate automatically

Free up to 40 MB — sign up free for 80 MB, upgrade to Pro for 250 MB

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