Turn PNG images into a PDF

Combine PNG images into one PDF without re-encoding them, so nothing gets softer. Everything happens on your device and no account is needed.

🔒 Runs in your browser

What this tool does

It puts your PNG images into a PDF, in the order you choose, without touching the image data.

That last part is the whole point. The usual way to build a PDF from images in a browser is to draw each one onto a canvas and re-encode it. It works, and it quietly costs you a generation of quality every time. Here the PNG bytes are embedded exactly as they arrived, so the picture inside the PDF is bit-for-bit the picture you dropped in.

Why that matters more than it sounds

Most people converting images to PDF are going to compress the PDF afterwards — for an application portal, a job form or an email limit. If the conversion step has already softened the image, the compression step is working on a degraded original, and you lose twice.

Doing it losslessly here means that when you go on to compress the result, the compressor is working with everything the original had.

Page size: what to pick

Fit the image makes each page exactly the size of its picture. No white borders, no letterboxing. This is right for screen reading, and for a single image you want to look deliberate.

A4 (595 x 842 pt) or US Letter (612 x 792 pt) centres the image on a standard page with a ~10 mm margin, scaled to fit and never stretched. Pick this when the document will be printed or submitted somewhere that expects a page size.

Nothing is ever stretched to fill the page. A stretched ID photo is a rejected application.

PNG is often the wrong format for the job

An inconvenient thing worth knowing: if your "PNG" is really a photograph — a phone picture saved as PNG, or a screenshot of one — you are carrying three to five times more bytes than you need for no visible benefit.

PNG stores every pixel exactly, which is perfect for text, screenshots of interfaces, logos and diagrams with flat colour, and wasteful for anything with smooth gradients. If the resulting PDF is uncomfortably large, that is usually the reason, and converting the source images to JPG first will fix it far better than compressing the PDF afterwards.

This tool runs entirely inside your browser. Your file is never uploaded — it never leaves your device, so there is nothing for us or anyone else to read, store or leak.

Common questions

Does converting to PDF make my images blurry?

Not here. The PNG bytes are copied into the PDF as they are, with no re-encoding, so the image inside the PDF is pixel-for-pixel the image you started with. Tools that render to canvas first — which is the common shortcut — do lose a generation of quality at this step.

What happens to transparency?

It is preserved in the file, and it will show as white on paper, because paper has no alpha channel. If your PNG has a transparent background and you are going to print it, that is the result you should expect.

Should I pick "fit the image" or A4?

Fit the image if the result is going to be read on a screen — the page matches the picture exactly, with no white borders. A4 or Letter if it is going to be printed or uploaded to a form that expects a standard page size.

The PDF is much bigger than the images were. Why?

It should not be, because the images are embedded unchanged — the PDF adds only a small structural overhead. If it is much larger, check whether your PNGs are screenshots of photographs. PNG stores photographs very inefficiently; converting those to JPG first will shrink the result dramatically with no visible loss.

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