RunToolRunHTML to PDF Converter
Convert HTML files or code to PDF. Free, private, and browser-based.
How to Convert HTML to PDF?
Upload an HTML file or paste code
Select an .html file from your computer or paste HTML code directly into the text area.
Conversion starts automatically
Your HTML page is rendered in your browser and automatically converted into a high-quality PDF document.
Download the PDF
Save the generated PDF to your computer. Your file is never uploaded to any server.
How this conversion works
The page is laid out in the browser, rendered to an image, and that image is placed into a PDF. This reproduces the visual result faithfully, including CSS layout, web fonts and anything the browser drew.
It also means the output is a picture of the page. Text is not selectable or searchable, links do not work, and a screen reader cannot read it. That is the trade this approach makes, and it decides whether it suits your purpose.
When a picture is what you want
Archiving a page as it appeared, capturing evidence of what a site displayed on a given day, saving a receipt or a confirmation, keeping a design exactly as rendered — in all of these the visual fidelity is the point and the text layer is irrelevant.
For anything that will be searched, indexed, quoted or read by software, it is the wrong tool, and the browser's own print-to-PDF function preserves text where this does not.
Why the result often differs from the screen
Pages are built to reflow, so the rendered width determines the layout entirely — a narrow render triggers mobile styles and produces a completely different document from a wide one. Content that loads lazily as you scroll may never load at all if the page is captured before it appears.
Elements that follow the viewport are the other surprise: sticky headers and fixed sidebars, which sit in one place on screen, can repeat down the page or land somewhere unexpected once the page becomes a tall static image.
Print stylesheets exist for this
Many sites define print styles that hide navigation, remove advertisements and reformat content into something suited to paper. A render-based capture does not use them, which is why this approach can produce a cluttered document where the browser's own print dialogue produces a clean one.
Trying print-to-PDF first is worth the ten seconds, particularly for articles and documentation.
Page breaks and long pages
A tall rendered image sliced into pages breaks wherever the slice falls, which lands in the middle of paragraphs, tables and images. There is no awareness of content, because by that point the content is pixels.
For a short page this is barely noticeable. For a long article it produces a document that reads awkwardly, and is another reason to prefer the browser's print path where the page will actually be read.
External content and privacy
Images and fonts loaded from other domains may not be captured, depending on how they are served, so a page can convert with missing images that were plainly visible on screen. Content behind a login generally cannot be captured at all.
Rendering happens in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and pages containing personal account information are processed on your own machine.