RTF to PDF
Turn an RTF document into a clean PDF - headings, lists, tables and pictures kept, text still selectable. The file is read on your computer and nothing is uploaded.
Drop your RTF document here
They stay on your computer. Nothing is sent to a server.
How to turn an RTF file into a PDF
RTF, rich text format, is what WordPad and TextEdit save, and what many older programs, forms and exports still produce. Almost anything can open it, but it looks different in each program. A PDF looks the same everywhere.
- Drop the .rtf file on the box at the top.
- Check what was found: the paragraphs, tables and pictures.
- Press Make the PDF.
- Press Save the PDF.
What is kept, and what is not
The writing is kept exactly, with its bold and italic. Larger lines become headings, bulleted and numbered lists stay lists, tables stay tables, and PNG and JPG pictures are placed where they were.
The document is set again in one clean style, so the exact fonts, colours and spacing are not copied. Headers, footers and footnotes are left out. Pictures saved in the old Windows drawing formats cannot be shown by a browser, and the tool tells you when there are some.
Good to know
- Can it read accented letters and other alphabets?
- It reads them all. The PDF can write the letters of Western European languages; if a document is mostly in another alphabet, the tool says so rather than filling the page with question marks.
- What about .doc files?
- The old Word format is different and cannot be read here. Open it in Word, WordPad or Google Docs, save it as .docx or .rtf, then convert that.
- Is the document uploaded?
- No. It is read and laid out by your browser, on your computer.