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Convert PNG to PDF

A PNG is usually a screenshot or an export rather than a photograph, and that changes what a good PDF of it looks like. This page measures both ways of storing each page and keeps the sharper one, so screenshots of text arrive readable rather than fringed.

PNG, JPG or WEBP · up to 50 at once

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How to convert PNG to PDF

  1. Tap Choose your PNGs and pick the images, in the order you want the pages.
  2. Tap Make PDF.
  3. Open the result and check the smallest text before you send it on.

Why a screenshot in a PDF often looks wrong

Most converters store every page as a JPEG, because for photographs that is the right answer and it is one code path. JPEG works by discarding fine differences between neighbouring pixels, which is generous to skin and cruel to letters: a screenshot of an email arrives with a grey halo around every character and a shimmer along every table rule.

This page encodes each page both ways — as a photograph and losslessly — and keeps whichever came out smaller. Flat colour and hard edges compress extremely well losslessly, so for a screenshot the sharp version is usually also the smaller one, and you get both at once rather than choosing.

Transparency becomes white

PNG can record that a pixel is see-through. A PDF page has nothing behind it to show through to, so anything transparent is painted onto white before the page is built. That is right for the overwhelming majority of PNGs — logos, cut-outs, screenshots with rounded corners — and it is stated here rather than discovered later, because the alternative default is black.

Questions

Will the PDF be bigger than my PNGs?
Usually a little smaller, because a photograph-heavy page compresses further than PNG manages. A set of flat screenshots comes out about the same, which is the point — nothing was thrown away.
Can I put several screenshots on one page?
Not in this version. Each image gets its own page. Combining them onto a contact sheet is a different job and it is on the list.
Is the text in my screenshots searchable in the PDF?
No. A screenshot is a picture of text, not text, and turning one back into words takes character recognition that this page does not do. The words will be readable to a person and invisible to a search box.

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