HTML to PDF
Turn a web address or an HTML file into a PDF, rendered by a real browser engine so modern layouts come out right. Files are deleted automatically.
A public http:// or https:// address.
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All PDF tools →This tool needs our server to process your file. It is sent over an encrypted connection, stored only while it is being processed, and deleted automatically within 60 minutes. We never read the contents or keep a copy.
About the HTML to PDF
Turn a web page into a PDF. Give it an address and it is loaded and printed exactly as a browser would show it, or upload an HTML file and get a PDF of that instead. The rendering is done by a real browser engine, so modern layouts — flexbox, grid, custom properties, web fonts — come out the way they were designed rather than approximately.
That is worth spelling out, because the traditional tool for this job is wkhtmltopdf, which has been unmaintained for years and is built on a 2012 version of WebKit. It does not understand CSS grid, gets flexbox wrong, and quietly mangles anything built in the last decade. A PDF that looks nothing like the page is not a conversion, so this runs headless Chromium instead.
Use it to archive a page before it changes, to file a receipt or booking confirmation, to keep a copy of an article for reading offline, or to turn an invoice template you generated into something you can send. Background colours and images are printed by default — browsers leave them out when you print, which is right for saving ink and wrong for archiving how a page actually looked.
Two things are worth knowing before you start. Only public pages work: anything behind a login is fetched by our server, which is not signed in as you, so you will get the sign-in page. And an uploaded HTML file is rendered with networking switched off, so images and stylesheets it links to externally will not appear — that restriction is deliberate, since a file that could make our server fetch arbitrary addresses would be a serious security hole rather than a feature.
How to use the HTML to PDF
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Choose a source
Web address loads a public page directly. Upload a file renders an HTML document from your device instead.
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Enter the address or add the file
Paste a full http:// or https:// address, or drop in a .html file up to 5 MB. Pressing Enter in the address box starts the conversion.
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Set the page options
Landscape suits wide tables and dashboards. Background colours and images are printed by default, which is usually what you want for an archive.
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Convert and download
Press Create PDF. Loading a heavy page can take several seconds. Download the result within the hour, after which it is deleted automatically.
Frequently asked questions
Can it convert a page that needs a login?
No. The page is fetched by our server, which has none of your cookies and is not signed in as you, so a page behind a login returns the sign-in screen instead of your content. For those, use your browser's own Print to PDF while you are logged in — it has the session and we do not.
Why do the images in my uploaded HTML file not appear?
An uploaded file is rendered with networking switched off, so anything it links to externally cannot load. That is a deliberate security decision rather than a limitation: a file that could make our server fetch arbitrary addresses would let anyone use it to reach systems inside our network. Use the web address option instead if the page needs its external resources.
Which addresses are refused?
Anything that is not a public http or https address on the standard web ports. Private, loopback and link-local ranges are all blocked, and the address is checked after it has been resolved rather than only as text — a public hostname pointing at a private address is refused too, because that is the usual way this kind of tool gets abused.
What happens to my file or the page I convert?
The resulting PDF is written to a temporary directory outside the web root under a random name and deleted automatically within the hour, whether or not you download it. An uploaded HTML file is deleted as soon as the job finishes. We do not store the address you entered, your IP address, or a copy of the page.
Why does my page look different in the PDF?
Usually because the site has a print stylesheet, which browsers apply when producing a PDF and which often hides navigation, sidebars and adverts by design. Pages that load content after the fact with JavaScript can also be captured before that content arrives, since the renderer waits a fixed budget rather than indefinitely.
Is there a page limit?
No page limit, but there is a time limit — a page that has not finished loading within about thirty seconds is printed as far as it got. That is deliberate: a page with an animation or a polling script never finishes loading at all, so waiting indefinitely would mean waiting forever.