EPUB to PDF without uploading the book The popular EPUB to PDF sites take the book onto their servers, and many limit the file size or how many books a free account may convert. This page does the whole conversion in your browser: the book is read, set into pages and written as a PDF on your own computer, so there is no upload, no daily limit and no watermark, and a whole folder of books can go in at once. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.
The PDF is not a set of pictures of pages. Each chapter is laid out again on the page size you choose, with real text in the standard PDF fonts, so it can be searched, selected and copied, reads sharply at any zoom, and stays small. Headings, italics and bold, paragraph indents, centred lines, lists, simple tables and pictures come through, the book's contents become the PDF's bookmarks, and links (to websites, and to footnotes and chapters inside the book) stay clickable.
What you can do Convert EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 books to PDF, including Kobo .kepub.epub files Convert Kindle books (.mobi, .azw3, .azw) and FictionBook (.fb2) files that have no DRM Drop many books at once: each becomes its own PDF, with progress for each, and Save all puts them in one ZIP Choose the page size: A4, US Letter, A5 or 6 × 9 inch paperback size, with narrow, normal or wide margins Choose the text size (9 to 18 point), a serif or sans-serif font, and justified or ragged lines The cover on a page of its own, each chapter starting on a new page, and page numbers, each of which can be switched off Bookmarks from the book's table of contents (or from its headings when it has none), and the title and author in the PDF's properties Searchable, selectable text, and links that still work, including footnote links Books with DRM recognised and explained rather than turned into nonsense How to convert an EPUB to PDF Choose the page size, margins, text size and font first. A5 or 6 × 9 inch gives pages shaped like a book, good for reading on a tablet; A4 or Letter suits printing at home. Drop the .epub files onto the page, or click browse and choose one or more. They convert one after another, each with a progress bar. Press Save PDF beside a finished book, or Save all as a ZIP when there are several. Stop halts the conversion under way and the ones still to come; Try again picks a stopped book up again. If you change a setting afterwards, press Convert again to remake the finished PDFs with it. Reading a book in the EPUB Reader ? Its Save as PDF button brings the book here and starts converting it.
What is kept and what changes Kept: all the text, in reading order; chapter and section headings; italic, bold, small capitals, superscript and subscript; the book's own alignment, indents and spacing where its stylesheet sets them; bulleted and numbered lists; simple tables; pictures, including SVG drawings; links to websites and email addresses; links inside the book, such as footnotes and a printed contents page; the cover; the table of contents, as bookmarks.
Changed or left out: the book's own fonts are replaced by Times (or Helvetica if you choose sans-serif) and Courier for code, so line breaks differ from an e-reader's. Text is black on white, with links in blue: the book's colours and backgrounds are not kept. Layouts that float pictures beside the text or place things side by side come out one after another in a single column. Audio and video clips are left out, and maths written in MathML comes out as plain text. Pictures on other websites are not fetched. Fixed-layout EPUBs (picture books, comics, some textbooks) are made for a fixed screen and come out with their pictures and text one after another rather than as designed.
Languages: text in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts is written in full (the Noto Sans font is added to the PDF when a book needs Greek, Cyrillic or other letters the standard fonts lack). Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and other scripts are not written yet: those characters are left out, and the page tells you how many under the file.
Books with DRM Most e-books bought from a store or borrowed through a library app are locked with DRM: Adobe DRM (ADEPT), Readium LCP or Apple FairPlay. Their text is encrypted, so no converter that respects the lock can read it. This page recognises a locked book, says which lock it has, and stops; it never tries to remove DRM. Books without DRM, such as public-domain classics from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, many independent publishers' books, and books you made yourself, convert normally. Fonts scrambled by a publisher (font obfuscation, which many shops apply) are not DRM and do not stop a book; the PDF uses its own fonts anyway.
Safe with any file An EPUB is a ZIP of web pages written by someone else. Here those pages are only ever read as text: they are never put into this page, so nothing in a book can run, and nothing a book points to on the internet is fetched. A book that claims to unpack to more than the browser can hold is refused, and the PDF stops at 6,000 pages and 3,000 pictures.
Questions
Can I search and copy the text of a PDF made from an EPUB? Yes. The text is written as real text, not as pictures of pages, so Ctrl+F finds words, and you can select and copy passages. It also means the PDF stays small: a novel is usually well under a megabyte unless it has many pictures.
Can I convert several EPUB books to PDF at once? Yes. Drop or choose as many .epub files as you like; they are converted one after another, each into its own PDF named after the file. Save all puts them in one ZIP; files with the same name get (2), (3) added. There is no daily limit, because nothing is sent anywhere.
Why does my EPUB from a store or library say it has DRM? Because it does: shops and library apps lock most books with Adobe DRM, Readium LCP or Apple FairPlay, which encrypt the text. The page reads the book's lock file, names the lock and stops without converting. Read the book in the app it came from. A book without DRM converts normally.
Does the PDF keep the e-book's table of contents? Yes, as bookmarks: the chapters and sections from the book's contents appear in the PDF reader's bookmarks panel and jump to their pages. A book without a contents list gets bookmarks from its chapter headings. A contents page printed inside the book keeps its links too.
Which page size should I choose for an e-book PDF? For printing at home, A4 or US Letter. For reading on a tablet or phone, or printing a book-shaped copy, A5 or 6 × 9 inch with a 10 or 11 point text size gives pages much like a paperback's. Bigger text on a smaller page means more pages, and every setting can be changed and the book converted again.
Can I turn a Kindle MOBI or AZW3 file into a PDF? Yes, if it has no DRM: drop the .mobi, .azw3 or .azw file here like an EPUB. It is read with the same code as the EPUB Reader's Kindle viewer. Links from one part of a Kindle book to another are not kept, but the bookmarks are. Books bought from the Kindle store carry DRM, and newer KFX downloads are a different format; the page explains which it found.
Why are some characters missing from my PDF? The PDF's fonts cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters, and the common punctuation and symbols. Characters beyond them, such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic or emoji, are left out, and the note under the file says how many. Books written mostly in those scripts cannot be converted well here yet.