PaperKit

PNG to PDF

Turn one PNG into a PDF, or combine a folder of them into a single document in the order you choose. Transparent areas are flattened onto the page background, since PDF pages are opaque.

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JPG, PNG, WebP and more — one page each

Private: files never leave your device

Turning PNGs into a PDF wraps one or many images into a paged document at the page size and order you choose. It is what upload forms want when they refuse images, and what makes a set of screenshots into something that reads as a document rather than a folder. One point specific to PNG: transparency is flattened onto the page background, because PDF pages are opaque and there is nowhere for see-through to go. An image with a transparent background therefore arrives with a white one, which is almost always what you wanted but is worth knowing before you send a logo sheet to a printer. The images are embedded rather than re-encoded, so quality is preserved exactly and the PDF is roughly the sum of its inputs. It all runs in your browser, with nothing uploaded.

What happens to transparency

A PDF page is a physical sheet with a colour, and PNG's alpha channel has no equivalent in it. Transparent regions are composited onto the page background — white by default — at the moment the image is placed.

For screenshots and diagrams this is invisible and correct. It matters when the image was designed to sit on something else: a logo with a transparent background becomes a logo on a white rectangle, which will show against any coloured stock it is printed on. Where that matters, composite the image onto the intended background first.

Screenshots make good PDF pages

PNG is what every operating system produces when you capture the screen, which makes this the natural route for turning a sequence of captures into a walkthrough, a bug report or a record of something before it changed.

Screenshots are usually wider than they are tall, so a landscape page will use the space far better than portrait. Keeping them in capture order matters as much as with any document — drag the thumbnails rather than trusting the order the browser hands over.

Quality and size

PNGs are embedded as they are, so nothing is re-compressed and the pages look exactly like the source images. PNG is lossless, which is excellent for fidelity and unhelpful for size: a set of full-resolution screenshots produces a large PDF.

If the result is too big for an email or an upload limit, compress the finished PDF rather than accepting a lower-quality capture. Screenshot text tolerates moderate compression better than people expect, and it is easier to redo than the captures are.

Frequently asked questions

Are my PDF files uploaded to a server?

No — this tool runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly and JavaScript. Your files never leave your device, which also means there are no size limits and no queues.

What happens to transparency in my PNG?

PDF pages have no alpha channel, so transparent regions are composited onto the page background — white by default. If transparency matters, keep the PNG alongside the PDF.

Can I combine several PNGs into one PDF?

Yes — drop them all in and drag to reorder. Each image becomes one page, in the order shown.

Will the image quality drop?

No. PNG data is embedded losslessly, so the PDF holds exactly the pixels you started with.

Will my transparent background stay transparent?

No. PDF pages are opaque, so transparency is flattened onto the page background — white unless you set otherwise. Composite the image onto the background you want first if that matters.

Does image quality drop when converting?

No. The PNGs are embedded rather than re-encoded, so each page shows exactly the source image. The consequence is size: lossless images make large PDFs, so compress afterwards if you hit a limit.

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