Convert PNG to PDF: what to know
Screenshots, scanned documents exported as PNG, diagrams and app mock-ups all end up needing to travel as a PDF at some point: a bug report with numbered screenshots, an expense claim, a design review. PNG is a lossless format, and this page keeps it that way — the PNG data is embedded in the PDF without re-encoding, on your device.
How to convert PNG to PDF
Add the PNG files above (drag and drop works, and so does pasting a screenshot straight from the clipboard). Order them with the arrows, or Sort by name if they were saved with a timestamp or a counter. Choose Fit to image for a page per screenshot at its natural size, or A4 / US Letter for a document that prints cleanly, then click Create PDF.
One PDF for the batch is the default. Switch Combine off to produce one PDF per PNG — handy when a form wants each page uploaded separately.
Lossless in, lossless out
PDF supports PNG-style images natively (Flate-compressed pixels), so Toolkitta writes the PNG's pixels into the document without converting them to JPG. Text in screenshots stays razor sharp, flat colours stay flat and there are no compression halos around letters and lines. The PDF is roughly the size of the PNGs it contains.
Transparent PNGs — logos, cut-outs, UI elements exported with a transparent background — keep their transparency inside the PDF, and viewers show the page's white behind them. If you would rather have a specific colour behind a transparent image, flatten it in the converter first (JPG or PNG with a background colour) and send the result here.
Screenshots and page size
Phone screenshots are tall (for example 1170 × 2532 pixels) and desktop screenshots are wide. With Fit to image, each page takes the exact shape of the screenshot, so nothing is scaled and the PDF reads like a stack of images. With A4 or US Letter and Auto orientation, tall screenshots go on portrait pages and wide ones on landscape pages, each scaled to fit inside the margins. Choose a margin of 10 or 20 mm if the document will be printed or annotated.
Keeping the file small
PNG screenshots are already compact, but full-resolution scans saved as PNG can be 10–30 MB each. Reduce file size re-encodes every image as a JPG at quality 80 with the long side capped at 2480 pixels, which turns a 25 MB PNG scan into a page of a few hundred kilobytes with no visible loss on paper. Leave it off for screenshots and graphics with text, where lossless matters more than size.
Questions about PNG to PDF
- Is the PNG compressed or converted to JPG?
- No — unless you turn on Reduce file size. The pixels are stored losslessly, exactly as in the PNG.
- What happens to transparency?
- It is kept. Viewers show the page background (white) through transparent areas.
- Can I paste a screenshot?
- Yes. Copy a screenshot and press Ctrl/Cmd+V on this page; it joins the queue like a dropped file.
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. Everything runs in your browser; the files stay on your device.