PDF Maker from Plain Text
Create a clean PDF from typed, pasted, or imported plain text with simple page size, margin, and font controls.
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
Which page size and margins should you choose?
PDF Maker has three page sizes. A4, at 210 x 297 mm, is the standard sheet in most countries outside North America. Letter (215.9 x 279.4 mm) and Legal (215.9 x 355.6 mm) are the common US sizes, so pick them when the reader asks for them. Each size can be portrait or landscape, and the margin slider runs from 8 to 36 mm, starting at 18.
The text width is the page width minus both margins: 174 mm on A4 portrait with the default margin, 179.9 mm on Letter or Legal and 261 mm on A4 landscape. Narrow margins fit more words on each line, while wide margins leave room for binding or a hole punch.
How many lines fit on one page?
Line spacing is the font size times 0.42 mm, so the default 12 gives 5.04 mm and the slider's ends, 9 and 22, give 3.78 mm and 9.24 mm. With the defaults (A4 portrait, size 12, 18 mm margins) a full page holds 52 lines of body text, and the first page about 50 under a one-line title. Legal fits 64 lines, Letter 49 and A4 landscape 35. Size 9 fits 70 lines on A4; size 22 fits 29.
At size 12 a line holds roughly 90 characters of ordinary English text, so a full A4 page carries about 4,600 characters. The title prints in bold at your font size plus 6, never below 16, and wraps onto more lines if it is long. Paragraphs are separated by one empty line however many blank lines you type between them, so a page of short paragraphs holds less text than one long block.
What should you check before you make the PDF?
Replace the sample sentence in the text box with your own text and set a real title, since the title becomes both the heading and the file name. The name is the title in lowercase with hyphens, so Rent Agreement 2026 saves as rent-agreement-2026.pdf, and a title with no Latin letters or digits saves as document.pdf. Make PDF stays disabled while the text box is empty.
The font is Helvetica, which has no rupee sign and no Devanagari. A line containing ₹ or Hindi text comes out as garbled characters, so type Rs. instead. For a DOCX file, Word to PDF reads it directly, and once your PDF is made, Edit PDF can add a drawn signature to it.