Step 1: Drop your SVG files using the button above or by deposit and leave.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Receive your converted PDF files.
SVG to PDF Conversion FAQ
How do I convert SVG to PDF for sharing or printing?
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Upload the SVG and the converter turns it into a PDF you can share or print. Documents keep the page size, margins and page breaks saved in the file, and a plain text file, which has none, is laid out on A4 pages. Pictures such as JPG or PNG are each placed on a page.
What if the source is a scan with no real text in it?
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Then the conversion produces a picture of the text rather than the text itself, and searching it finds nothing. Run /pdf-ocr/ to add a recognised text layer first; optical character recognition turns the scanned pixels into selectable, searchable characters that the conversion can then carry through properly.
Should I place the SVG straight into the PDF or export it first?
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Export it first if the document is going anywhere but your own machine. An SVG is a working file from a design tool, and the things that make it useful there — editable text, effects, references to assets that live elsewhere — are flattened or ignored the moment it is placed in a page. Exporting deliberately means choosing how it is flattened instead of discovering it later, and it usually produces a much smaller document as well. SVG is the W3C’s XML-based vector format, a recommendation since 2001 and now native to every browser.
How does text inside the SVG behave?
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In an SVG, text is real text — selectable, searchable and re-styleable, and it needs the font to be available or embedded to render as intended. Converting away from SVG turns that text into pixels or into document text depending on the target; converting towards SVG only produces real text if the source had a text layer to begin with.
Is the PDF side of this conversion searchable?
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It depends entirely on whether real text is present. A PDF generated from a document carries an actual text layer and is searchable; a PDF built from scans or images is a picture of text and is not, until OCR adds a layer. /pdf-ocr/ does that, and it is worth running before any conversion that expects to read the words.
Will the SVG to PDF conversion keep my fonts and formatting?
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Headings, lists, tables and images are kept, and the fonts used are embedded in the PDF, so it looks the same in every viewer. A font that is not installed on our conversion servers (Calibri, for example) is replaced with a similar one, so line breaks can shift. An image file becomes a PDF page that shows the image.
Can I merge multiple SVG files into one PDF?
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Not on this page: each SVG you upload becomes a separate PDF. To combine them, convert them here first, then join the PDF files into one document with /pdf-merge/.
What page size and orientation will the PDF use?
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A document keeps the page size and orientation saved in it, so a Word file set up as US Letter landscape stays that way. A plain text file has no page setup and comes out as A4 portrait. The converter has no page size or orientation setting, so change the page setup in the original file before converting if you need something different.
Is the PDF searchable (selectable text)?
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Yes when the SVG contains real text (DOCX, ODT, HTML, TXT). Image-based SVG produces an image-only PDF — to make it searchable, use /pdf-ocr/ after conversion to run optical character recognition.
Can I password-protect the PDF after conversion?
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Not on this site. The converter has no password or permission settings, and epub.to does not have a PDF password tool. Download the PDF and add a password in a PDF editor that supports it, such as Adobe Acrobat.
How big will the PDF file be?
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It depends mostly on the pictures. A text document usually gives a small PDF, because only the text and the parts of the fonts it uses are stored, while photos and scanned pages make up most of the size of a larger file. The converter has no compression setting; to shrink a finished PDF, run it through /pdf-compress/.
