Text to PDF

Yes. Text to PDF uses native text drawing, which writes native PDF text operators referencing embedded fonts. The result is a true text PDF — Ctrl-F finds text instantly, double-click selects words, drag selects passages, and copy-paste produces clean plain text on the other end. This is fundamentally different from image-based PDFs (where text is part of a rendered picture and requires OCR to become searchable). It also means the PDF is small: a 50-page text PDF is typically under 500 KB, compared to 10-50 MB for the same content as scanned images. For long documents, plain text PDFs are by far the most efficient format. Embedded fonts ensure the text displays correctly even on machines without Helvetica or Times installed.

Partially. The built-in fonts (Helvetica, Times, Courier) cover basic Latin and a limited set of accented characters. For full Unicode support including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, or emoji, the tool falls back to a Unicode-capable font, but rendering quality varies. If your text contains non-Latin scripts, test the output and adjust font selection if characters appear as boxes or blanks. For best results with mixed-script text, paste smaller test sections first to confirm the chosen font renders everything. Emoji support is limited because emoji glyphs are typically color graphics not embedded in basic PDF fonts. If complete typographic control matters, use Markdown to PDF or HTML to PDF with custom font links instead.

Yes. Single newlines become line breaks; double newlines (a blank line between paragraphs) become paragraph breaks with extra vertical spacing. Tab characters and leading spaces are preserved when using a monospaced font like Courier, which makes Text to PDF excellent for code snippets, ASCII tables, and command-line transcripts. For proportional fonts like Helvetica or Times, leading spaces still indent but visual alignment of columns may drift because each character has a different width. For structured plain text (lists, hierarchies), use Markdown to PDF instead — Markdown syntax produces real bullets, numbered lists, headings, and indentation rendered with proper typography.

No fixed limit; the tool processes text in memory and writes a PDF page at a time. Text up to a few megabytes (roughly a long novel) converts in a second or two on a modern laptop. Beyond that, the conversion still works but takes proportionally longer. The output PDF stays small even for huge texts — vector text is extremely compact compared to images. There is no character count cap, no word count cap, no page count cap. For very long inputs, the resulting PDF may have hundreds or thousands of pages, which can slow down PDF viewers when first opened (most viewers lazy-load pages, so initial display is fast but scrolling to the end may take a moment). Practical for everyday use up to book length.

Not directly in Text to PDF — the tool focuses purely on text rendering. After converting, use Add page numbers to stamp numbers in any corner, or Add header & footer to put repeating text at the top and bottom of every page. Both tools take any PDF input, so chaining works seamlessly: convert text, then number, then add a header. Doing this in sequence is fast because each tool runs in the browser without uploads. For more advanced typesetting (different fonts per section, tables, page breaks at specific points), use Markdown to PDF (with Markdown's heading syntax) or HTML to PDF (with full CSS control). Text to PDF is for the simple case of getting plain text into a sharable PDF format.

Yes. The tool embeds the chosen font subset directly into the PDF, so the text renders identically on any machine — even one that does not have Helvetica installed. Page dimensions are exact (A4 is 210 by 297 mm everywhere; US Letter is 8.5 by 11 inches everywhere). Margins and line spacing are computed in absolute units, so layout is consistent across viewers and printers. The only variation is anti-aliasing during display, which may make text look slightly different on different screens but does not affect the underlying file or its print output. For sharing a quick text document where consistency matters, Text to PDF is more reliable than sharing a .txt file (where the recipient's font choice could change everything).