EPUB to PDF
Turn an e-book into a PDF to read, print or share.
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Quick facts
- Takes
- One EPUB 2 or EPUB 3 book, up to 200 MB, which may unpack to at most 640 MB in 10,000 files. A book locked with DRM is refused.
- Gives
- A PDF on A4, Letter or A5: chapters on new pages, numbered pages, the book’s own styles, fonts and pictures, and its table of contents as bookmarks. A fixed-layout book keeps each page at its own size.
- Runs
- On our servers: the book is unpacked in memory, never to disk, printed by a Chromium that can reach only the book’s own files, and the job is deleted as soon as the result is fetched.
- Plan
- Pro: 200 tasks a day on our servers, and a task that fails is not counted. The tools that run in your browser stay free.
- Fonts
- The fonts the book carries are used, including those hidden with the IDPF or Adobe font obfuscation; text they do not cover falls back to the Noto fonts, which cover Indian scripts.
Typeset from the book’s own parts
The chapters are read in the order the book gives, the ones it marks as extra (notes, answers) at the end, and put together into one document, so pages are numbered through and a link from one chapter to another leads there inside the PDF. Each chapter starts on a new page with the book’s own styles; a cover the chapters do not already show is put first, on a page of its own.
The table of contents becomes the bookmarks, each opening where its entry points rather than at the top of a chapter. A book written right to left opens right to left. Picture books and comics made with a fixed layout are printed page by page at the size each page was drawn for. To make the PDF smaller afterwards, use Compress PDF.
Measured on our sample file
| File | EPUB | Pages | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| care-guide.epub | 171 kB | 280 kB | 6 | 9.0 s |
The PDF is bigger than the book because each picture is embedded as it is and the text is set in fonts the PDF carries. Read the time per page: about a second and a half here, most of it the browser laying the chapters out.
What it cannot do
- Remove DRM. Books locked with copy protection are refused.
- Play audio or video, or run the book's scripts. What the pages show is printed.
- Keep a reading app's own settings, such as the font size you chose there. The book's own styles are used, on the paper you choose.
If something goes wrong
- This e-book is locked with copy protection (DRM), which cannot be removed here.
- Convert a copy without DRM, such as a book you made or bought without protection.
- This file is not an EPUB e-book, or it is damaged.
- Check that the file opens in an e-book reader, or save it again from the program that made it.
- Today's tasks are used up
- Pro runs 200 tasks a day on our servers, counted from midnight UTC, and a task that fails is not counted. The count starts again the next day.
About EPUB to PDF
EPUB to PDF turns an e-book into a PDF you can print, annotate or read anywhere: chapters on new pages, numbered pages, the book's own fonts and pictures, and its contents as bookmarks. It is converted on our servers.
How to use EPUB to PDF
Add the EPUB file.
Choose A4, Letter or A5; the book is typeset on our servers.
Download the PDF.
Frequently asked questions
- Can it convert books bought from a store?
- Only books without DRM. Books locked with copy protection are refused; the tool does not remove it.
- Are picture books and comics kept as they are?
- Yes. Fixed-layout books keep each page at the size it was made for, one PDF page per page.
- Does the table of contents work?
- Yes. The book's table of contents becomes the PDF's bookmarks, and links between chapters keep working.
- Which paper should I choose?
- A5 reads like a paperback on a screen or a tablet; A4 and Letter suit printing at home.
- Are the book's fonts used?
- Yes, including fonts the book hides with font obfuscation. Other text uses the Noto fonts on our servers, which cover Indian scripts.
Related tools
- Compress PDFMake a PDF smaller, down to an exact size if you need one.
- Bookmarks and contentsEdit a PDF's bookmarks, make them from its headings, add a contents page.
- Add page numbersNumber pages with the position and style you choose, add a header and footer, or set the page numbers a reader shows.
- PDF to textGet a PDF's text as a plain text file, in reading order.