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EPUB to PDF

Opens an .epub file, joins the text of its chapters into one long page, and turns that into an A4 PDF made of page-sized images. Images inside the book and the book's own stylesheet are not applied.

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Renders every chapter into a continuous PDF. Complex ebook styling and embedded fonts may render approximately.

How to Use

  1. 1Drop one .epub file onto the upload area, or click to choose it. Only one file is accepted.
  2. 2Click Convert to PDF and wait for 'Converting EPUB...' to finish. Long books can take a while.
  3. 3Download the PDF and skim it: check chapter order, images and page breaks.
  4. 4If the result is unusable, try converting the book in smaller pieces or use a desktop ebook tool.

About this tool

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Turning a reflowing book into fixed pages

The EPUB's chapters are read in their proper reading order and written out as a PDF you can print or annotate.

The order comes from the book's own manifest rather than from file names, so chapters arrive as the author intended. This is the conversion you want when a book has to become something physical or fixed: printing, marking up with a pen, submitting a document, or archiving a copy that will look identical on every machine forever.

The trade you are making

You gain fixed, printable pages and lose the reflowing that makes an EPUB comfortable on a small screen.

An EPUB has no pages until a device decides where to break them, which is exactly why it adapts to any screen and font size. A PDF fixes that layout permanently. On a phone the PDF will be worse to read than the EPUB was. Convert when you need paper or a fixed record, and keep the EPUB for reading.

Text comes across; styling largely does not

The book's words and chapter order are preserved. Its custom fonts, images and fine typography are not reproduced.

The output is a clean, readable text document rather than a facsimile of the styled book. For a novel that is close to everything that matters. For a technical book or anything illustrated, expect to lose the figures. If the book's value is in its diagrams, this conversion is not the right tool.

Books that will not convert

A DRM-protected EPUB cannot be read here, and a file with no readable chapters stops with an error.

Most commercially purchased books carry DRM, which encrypts the content so no tool can open it without authorisation, and removing it is not something this site does. Files from public-domain libraries, technical publishers and anything you exported yourself are normally unprotected and convert fine. If you see an error about no readable content, DRM or an unusual internal structure is the likely cause.

Features

  • One file at a time (maxFiles is 1), .epub files only
  • Reads the EPUB's content list and combines every chapter into one continuous document
  • Output is A4 pages; each page is a JPEG image of the rendered text
  • Falls back to any .xhtml or .html files in the archive if the book has no readable content list
  • Shows an error if no readable chapter content is found
  • Runs in your browser; the ebook is not uploaded

FAQ

Will the PDF look like the ebook on a reader?

Not closely. The chapters are drawn with a plain default style (Arial, A4 width), and the book's own stylesheet and embedded fonts are not loaded. Headings, paragraphs and simple formatting in the markup usually come through; custom layout, drop caps and cover art may not.

Are the images in my book included?

Usually not. Image references inside an EPUB point to files packed in the archive, and this converter does not extract them, so they will be missing or show as broken. Expect a text-focused result.

Can I select and search the text in the PDF?

No. Pages are stored as images, so the PDF has no text layer and files can be large. Run OCR PDF on the result if you need searchable text.

Why did my large book fail?

The whole book is rendered as one very tall picture before being cut into pages, and browsers limit how large that can be. Very long books may fail or run out of memory. Also, DRM-protected EPUB files cannot be read.

Is my ebook uploaded?

No. The book is unpacked and the PDF is created in your browser, with no upload for the conversion.