How the PDF is built
The SVG is rendered onto a canvas at the size you choose, exported as a PNG, and embedded into a new PDF with a single page. The page dimensions are taken from the rendered image, and the image is placed at full bleed with no margin, so the PDF page is exactly your graphic and nothing else.
This is a raster embed rather than a vector one, and that is the most important thing to understand about the output. The paths in your SVG do not survive as paths inside the PDF: they become pixels. The PDF will not scale infinitely, text inside it is not selectable, and it cannot be edited back into vector shapes.
That trade is fine for a huge number of real jobs: attaching a diagram to an email, dropping a logo into a document, submitting artwork where the recipient asked for a PDF, or archiving a graphic in a format everything can open. It is not fine for print production, where a printer will want real vector paths.
- Upload one SVG or paste markup
- Choose an exact width or a scale factor
- The page is sized to the rendered artwork
- Download the single-page PDF
Picking a size that lands well
Set width takes an exact pixel width, starting at 1024, and Use scale multiplies the SVG own dimensions, starting at a factor of 2. The height is always derived from the aspect ratio, so the artwork never distorts.
The pixel dimensions of the render become the point dimensions of the page. A PDF point is one seventy-second of an inch, so a 1024 pixel wide render produces a page about 14.2 inches wide. If you want a page close to A4 width, render around 595 wide; for US Letter width, render around 612.
Because it is a raster embed, that same number also controls how sharp the result looks. A larger render is a sharper PDF on a bigger page. Rendering at 2048 and printing on an A4 sheet gives you roughly 250 dots per inch, which holds up well on paper.
What the tool does not offer
There is no page format selection: no A4, no Letter, no orientation switch, and no margin control. The page is whatever shape the artwork is. If you need the graphic centered on a standard sheet, produce the PDF here and then place it into a page layout, or export to PNG and use the Image to PDF tool, which does offer page sizing.
It also produces exactly one page. A multi-page document from several SVGs is not something this tool does. Convert each one and combine them with Merge PDF.
The background select works the same way as on the other SVG pages. Transparent is preserved in the embedded image, which most viewers will show as white, so choosing White explicitly is the predictable option when the PDF will be printed.
- No A4, Letter, margin, or orientation options
- Single page only, one graphic per PDF
- Combine several with Merge PDF if you need a document