Create a Text PDF
Turn a title and body text into a clean A4 or Letter PDF online.
Create New PDF
Write a letter, agenda, set of notes, or other simple document
How to create a text PDF
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Start the document
Enter a document title and write or paste the body text. Everything stays online while you work.
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Choose the page settings
Pick A4 or US Letter, portrait or landscape, a font, text size, margins, and whether the finished file should show page numbers.
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Export the PDF
Generate the finished file. Long text flows onto new pages automatically, and the PDF opens in standard readers such as Acrobat, Preview, and browsers.
When building a PDF directly is the right approach
Most PDFs begin life somewhere else and are exported. That is the right path for anything long or text-heavy, because a word processor gives you styles, automatic numbering, a contents page, and reflowing text — all things you would otherwise arrange by hand. If you are writing a report, use a word processor and export it.
This tool is useful for short, text-first documents such as meeting notes, simple letters, agendas, and quick handouts. It handles line wrapping and creates extra pages as the text grows.
It is not a visual page designer. For a flyer, certificate, complex form, image-heavy layout, table of contents, or advanced typography, create the document in a word processor or design tool and export it as PDF.
Page size, margins, and designing for a fixed page
PDF is a fixed-layout format. Unlike a web page or an e-book, its page size does not change to fit the reader's screen. Choose the page size that matches how the document will be shared or printed.
Choose that size at the start. A4 is the standard almost everywhere outside North America, where Letter is the norm — they are close enough to be confused and different enough that a document laid out for one can lose content off the edge when printed on the other. If a document is going to an international audience, A4 is the safer default. Keep margins of at least 12–15mm on all sides: most consumer printers cannot print to the edge of the paper, and content placed nearer than that risks being clipped.
Use a readable body size, usually 10 to 12 points, and leave enough margin for printing. Page numbers are useful when the document may be printed, shared as separate pages, or discussed with other people.
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