RTF to PDF, as clean readable pages
PDFCheetah's free RTF to PDF tool sets a Rich Text document's paragraphs, bold and italic text, lists and pictures as PDF pages in your browser — a plain, readable copy — and your file never leaves your device.
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Choose an RTF document to turn into a PDF
One file · up to 80 MB · RTF bytes are checked on this device
Processed on this device
Selecting and processing files stays in this browser.
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Offline availability is confirmed after this tool loads.
Why there is no daily limit, and no upload
How to turn an RTF document into a PDF
- Choose an .rtf file — from WordPad, TextEdit, Word or any word processor.
- Choose the font, text size, page size and margins. The preview is the PDF itself, redrawn after every change.
- Select Create PDF, then Download.
What is kept
The document’s words in order: paragraphs, bold, italic and struck-through text, headings where the document marks them, bulleted and numbered lists, links, line and page breaks, and its PNG and JPEG pictures. Text in any language the document’s code page or Unicode carries is read correctly. Nothing is uploaded.
Current limitations
This is a best-effort reading copy, set in PDFCheetah’s own faces: the document’s fonts, sizes, colors, underlining, alignment, columns, margins, headers and footers, footnotes and comments are not kept. A table keeps its text, one row to a line, but not its shape. Pictures in other formats, such as Windows metafiles, and embedded objects are left out, and the page says how many. The Fonts setting decides which scripts are drawn; characters beyond the chosen level are drawn as a replacement mark, and the result says how many.
Common questions
- Is my RTF document uploaded to make the PDF?
- No. The document is read and the PDF is written in your browser, on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- What does the PDF keep from the document?
- Its words in order, with paragraphs, bold, italic and struck-through text, headings where the document marks them, bulleted and numbered lists, links, line and page breaks, and its PNG and JPEG pictures.
- What is left out?
- The document's own fonts, sizes, colors, underlining, alignment, columns, margins, headers, footers, footnotes and comments. A table keeps its text, one row to a line, but not its shape, and pictures in other formats, such as Windows metafiles, are left out and counted.
- Are languages other than English read correctly?
- Yes, when the document says how its text is encoded, as RTF files written by word processors do. The Fonts setting decides which scripts are drawn; characters beyond it are shown as a replacement mark, and the page says how many.