Convert GIF to PDF

To convert GIF to PDF, select or drop your GIF on this page, choose a Page size and press Convert to PDF. You get a one-page PDF named after the file: party.gif becomes party.pdf. This GIF to PDF converter is free and works in current Chrome, Edge and Firefox, and the GIF stays on your computer, unless your browser cannot read it and you choose Convert on our server instead.

A PDF page holds one still picture, so an animated GIF gives its first frame and the rest are left out. Our three-frame test GIF became a one-page PDF showing frame one. That also keeps the file small: a 12-frame clip of 2.2 MB gave a PDF of 228 KB.

With Keep every pixel, the choice the page starts on, the frame goes in with lossless compression. Every pixel in our test PDFs matched the GIF, which is why the pair is graded Picture-perfect. See-through areas turn white, so a logo on a clear background sits on a white page. Words in the GIF stay part of the picture: you can read them, but not select or search them.

Page size starts on A4 and Orientation on Auto, which gives a GIF wider than it is tall a landscape page and any other GIF a portrait one. On A4 and US Letter the picture is scaled to fill the space inside a 10 mm margin, keeping its shape, and centred. In our tests:

• a 480 × 270 GIF went onto a landscape A4 page (297 × 210 mm), 277 mm wide;
• with Portrait chosen, the same GIF sat 190 mm wide across an upright A4 page;
• on US Letter it got a 279 × 216 mm page and was 259 mm wide.

Fit to picture makes the page the size of the GIF, with no margin, and hides Orientation. A GIF stores no print size, so the page counts 96 pixels per inch: 480 × 270 pixels gave a page of 127 × 71 mm.

A GIF made from a photo can still give a big PDF. Under Pictures in the PDF, Save as JPG stores the frame as a JPG at the quality you choose under Compress the pictures, Balanced or Smaller: our 1600 × 1067 photo-like GIF made a 748 KB PDF with every pixel kept and a 211 KB one as JPG at Balanced. For a logo, a sticker or a drawing in flat colours, keep every pixel: JPG blurs sharp edges, and our flat-colour test GIF came out bigger as JPG, not smaller.

This page makes one PDF per GIF. Add up to 100 at a time, and with two or more, Download all (ZIP) saves every PDF at once. To put several GIFs into a single PDF, use JPG to PDF: despite its name it takes GIFs, up to 200 pictures in the order you drag them. It also uses only the first frame of an animation.

To give each frame of an animation its own page:

1. Open the GIF in GIF to frames, press Save frames, then Save all as ZIP.
2. Unzip it. Our three-frame GIF gave dance_0001.png, dance_0002.png and dance_0003.png.
3. Add those pictures to JPG to PDF and press Make PDF. Ours became one three-page PDF, frames in order.

Other pictures have pages of their own: convert WebP to PDF, convert TIFF to PDF for a scan with several pages, or convert SVG to PDF for a drawing. Going the other way, convert PDF to GIF to turn the pages of a PDF into one animated GIF.