Convert EPUB to PDF, chapter by chapter

To convert EPUB to PDF, select or drop your .epub file on this page, press Convert to PDF and download the result. Our server lays the book out on A4 pages, one chapter after another in reading order, and the PDF keeps your file's name, so novel.epub comes back as novel.pdf.

An EPUB has no pages of its own. Its text flows to fit whatever screen opens it, which is what makes it comfortable on an e-reader and awkward almost everywhere else. A PDF has fixed pages, so it prints the way it looks, opens in any PDF reader and is easy to send to someone without an e-book app.

This EPUB converter takes EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 books. We tested it on public-domain books from Project Gutenberg, from a picture book of a few pages to War and Peace.

We converted real books and checked every PDF. This is what came through:

• Every chapter, in the book's reading order, each starting on a new page.
• The cover, on the first page.
• Headings, which also become bookmarks: the outline a PDF reader shows beside the pages.
• Pictures and illustrations. One wider than the page is scaled down to fit it.
• Links. A link to a website stays clickable, and a link to another chapter jumps to its page.
• The words stay text, so you can search the PDF and copy from it.

When a book has a table of contents but does not print one, the PDF starts with a Contents page that links to each entry. A book that prints its own contents keeps that one, and gets no second list.

An e-book app draws a book with the fonts and styles that came with it. The PDF keeps the content and makes the look plainer:

• The text is set in a standard serif font, not the fonts that came with the book.
• Pages are A4, with the same margins throughout.
• Simple styling comes through: italics, bold, centred or right-aligned lines and indents. Fancier layout, such as text that wraps around a picture, does not.
• Each heading takes the size that goes with its level, whatever size the book gave it.

Many shops sell e-books with DRM, a lock that ties the book to one app or account. We do not remove DRM. A locked book is refused when you upload it, before anything is converted, and the page tells you why.

Books without DRM convert as normal. That includes public-domain books and books from shops and authors that sell without DRM. Some books scramble their fonts so they cannot be copied out. That is not DRM, and those books convert too.

The free plan converts three files a day, up to 25 MB each, with no account, and Pro takes files up to 100 MB. The PDF can have up to 2,000 pages, and War and Peace fitted with room to spare in our test.

A book full of pictures can make a large PDF. If yours is too big to send, compress the PDF afterwards.

Not a book? A single web page saved as a file has its own route: convert HTML to PDF. Writing your own book in Word? Word to PDF keeps the layout you set. To take only the words back out of a PDF, convert PDF to text.