When to turn text into a PDF
Plain text files are perfect for writing but awkward to share: they look different on every device, have no page layout and are easy to edit by accident. A PDF looks the same everywhere, prints on standard paper and is accepted by every upload form. Typical uses are letters and statements written in a notes app, logs and reports exported from software, poems and short stories, lists and instructions, and text copied from a website or email.
How to convert text to PDF
- Paste your text into the box, or click Or open a file and choose a .txt file.
- Choose A4 or US Letter. DocNova picks the usual size for your country.
- Pick a font: Sans serif for modern documents, Serif for letters and reading, Monospace for code, logs and anything that lines up in columns.
- Choose the font size and margins, and whether to add page numbers.
- Click Convert to PDF. Long text flows onto as many pages as needed.
Line breaks, spacing and special characters
Every line break in your text is kept, and blank lines stay as blank lines, so paragraphs and lists look the way you typed them. Long lines wrap neatly at the margin. Indentation at the start of a line is kept, which matters for code and outlines.
The PDF uses the standard PDF fonts, which cover English and Western European languages, including accents, curly quotes, dashes and the euro sign. If your text uses other scripts such as Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Chinese or emoji, DocNova tells you and offers Save with my browser, which keeps every character.
Writing with headings and lists?
If your text uses Markdown, such as # Heading, **bold** or - list item, switch Text type to Markdown, or use Markdown to PDF, to get real headings, bold text and bullet lists in the PDF.