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HTML to PDF

Convert a web page or HTML to a PDF document.

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About the HTML to PDF

The HTML to PDF tool turns a web page, an HTML snippet, or a saved .html file into a clean, fixed-layout PDF you can save, email, or print. Paste your markup or a URL, preview how it will lay out on a page, and download a document that keeps the original text, headings, tables, images, and styling locked in place. Because PDF is a fixed-format container, the result looks the same on any device or printer, which is exactly what HTML on its own cannot promise. It is the quickest way to take something that lives in a browser and hand it over as a single portable file that no longer depends on the live page staying online.

Use it whenever you need an offline, shareable, or archival copy of web content: saving an invoice, receipt, or order confirmation; turning a report, dashboard, or email template into a deliverable; capturing a recipe, article, or documentation page before it changes; or producing a printable handout from HTML you have written yourself. Developers reach for it to spot-check how a generated template renders on paper, while non-coders use it to freeze a page exactly as it appears today. Unlike a screenshot, a well-made HTML-to-PDF keeps the text as real text, so the document stays searchable, selectable, and far smaller in file size.

Conversion works by rendering your HTML and its CSS through the browser's own layout engine and then writing the result onto sized pages. The cleanest path uses the browser's print pipeline, which honours @media print rules and CSS page-break properties such as page-break-inside: avoid, so headings stay attached to their content and table rows are not sliced in half. A second approach rasterises the page to an image first and drops that image into the PDF; it is forgiving of complex layouts but produces non-selectable text and larger files. Knowing which method a tool uses explains most differences you will see in fidelity, page breaks, and size.

Accuracy depends almost entirely on your CSS. Modern layout features like Flexbox and Grid are reproduced well by print-based rendering but can behave unexpectedly in image-based converters, and fonts must be available or embedded or they will be substituted. This tool runs in your browser, so the HTML you paste and the PDF it produces stay on your own device and are not uploaded to a server. That keeps confidential invoices, statements, and internal documents private. For pixel-perfect output, set explicit page margins, add print styles, and preview before downloading rather than assuming the on-screen view maps one-to-one onto the page.

Frequently asked questions

Will the text in my PDF stay selectable and searchable?

It depends on the conversion method. Print-based rendering keeps text as real, selectable, searchable text, while image-based (rasterising) conversion flattens everything into a picture so the text can no longer be selected or searched and the file is larger. Prefer the print path when searchable text matters.

Why does my layout look different in the PDF than in the browser?

PDFs are paginated and use the print rendering path, so anything defined under @media print or the print stylesheet takes over, and a page that scrolls freely on screen must now fit fixed page sizes. Add print styles, set margins, and check page-break behaviour to bring the output closer to the on-screen view.

How do I stop tables, headings, or images from being split across pages?

Use CSS page-break properties: page-break-inside: avoid on tables, rows, or cards keeps them whole, and page-break-before/after lets you force a new page at a chosen element. These rules are read during conversion, so set them in your HTML before generating the PDF.

Can I convert a live URL, or only pasted HTML?

You can convert HTML you paste or an .html file directly. Converting a live URL works best for self-contained pages; pages that pull in fonts, scripts, or images from other servers may render incompletely if those resources are blocked or load after the snapshot is taken.

Is my HTML uploaded anywhere when I convert it?

No. The conversion happens in your browser, so the markup you paste and the PDF that is produced stay on your device and are not sent to a server. That makes it safe for invoices, statements, and other documents containing private information.

From our blog

How to Open RAR Files Without Installing Anything

By the Super Simple Digital Tools Team · Updated June 2026

If you have ever downloaded a file ending in .rar and double-clicked it only to get a shrug from your computer, you have met the most common RAR frustration. RAR is a compression format, like ZIP, but it was designed to squeeze files smaller and split them across multiple volumes more gracefully. The trade-off is that it is proprietary: Windows ships with no RAR support at all, and macOS only opens ZIP out of the box. So a perfectly good archive can sit on your desktop, unreadable, until you find a way to unpack it.

The browser-based route solves this without committing you to new software. You open the extractor page, drag your .rar file onto it, and a decompression engine compiled to WebAssembly reads the archive's directory, unpacks each entry, and hands you the files to download. Because all of that math runs on your own machine, the process is fast and the contents never travel over the network. That last point matters more than it sounds: invoices, ID scans, or private photos inside an archive stay entirely on your device.

Passwords are where people get stuck. A protected RAR will prompt you for a password before it reveals anything, and there is an important distinction here. If you know the password, type it in and the archive decrypts locally. If you have forgotten it, no online tool can simply open the file, because RAR5 protects contents with AES-256 and a slow key-derivation function specifically to make guessing impractical. The honest answer is to find the password, not to look for a magic unlocker.

Split archives are the other classic puzzle. Large files are often shared as a set named archive.part1.rar, archive.part2.rar, and so on, or in the older style archive.rar, archive.r00, archive.r01. These are not separate downloads you open one at a time, they are pieces of a single archive. To extract them you must hand the tool the whole set at once, with every part present and correctly named. Miss one volume and the archive simply cannot be reassembled, so always confirm you downloaded the complete sequence.

A few format details help you trust the result. RAR5 added a much larger compression dictionary and stronger BLAKE2 checksums, and many archives carry a recovery record, parity data that can repair a limited amount of corruption. If extraction fails on a file that downloaded incompletely, re-downloading is usually the fix; if it fails because a part is genuinely missing or the password is wrong, no amount of retrying will help. Knowing which problem you have saves a lot of wasted time.

  • For split sets, select every volume (all .partN.rar or the .rar plus .r00/.r01 files) together in one go, never just the first one.
  • If a download was interrupted, an extraction error usually means a corrupt file, re-download the .rar before assuming the archive itself is broken.
  • Enter passwords exactly as given, including capitalization, RAR passwords are case-sensitive and a single wrong character will block decryption.
  • Disconnect from Wi-Fi after the page loads to confirm extraction still works locally, proof that your files are not being uploaded.

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Tool by the Super Simple Digital Tools Team. Reviewed by our editorial team. Free to use, no signup required.

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