Convert SVG to PDF
Turn an SVG into a PDF page at its real size, in your browser. Outlines come through as vector paths, and the page is the drawing rather than a sheet it was fitted to.
Convert your SVG to PDF
Drop your .svg file
.svg
Runs in this tab. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to make.
Choose a file to begin.
What this keeps and what it drops
Kept
- outlines as lines and arcs
- circles, ellipses and arcs, kept exact rather than flattened to short lines
- layers and their visibility
- physical size, from the root width and height
Dropped
- fills, strokes, colours and line widths
- cubic and quadratic curves, flattened to short lines
- the original position, anchored to the origin
Proved on 4 fixture drawings on 2026-09-07; 0 incomplete or unitless fixtures were refused rather than exported.
What this is for
An SVG is a drawing for a screen. A PDF is a drawing for a page. Converting between them is worth doing when someone has to print the thing, sign it, or open it without a browser, and when the size on paper has to be right.
The page is the drawing
The page is sized from the artwork's own bounds, so an outline 210 mm across produces a 210 mm page. Nothing is fitted to A4 or Letter, and nothing is scaled to fit a margin. Print at 100 percent and the paper matches the design.
That depends on the SVG stating a size. A root element with a width and height in millimetres or inches states one. A bare viewBox does not, and is read at 96 pixels to the inch by CSS convention, which is a display rule rather than a measurement. If the page comes out an unexpected size, that is why, and the SVG reference explains it in full.
What comes through
Lines, rectangles, polygons, circles, ellipses and paths, as vector paths in the PDF. Circles and arcs stay curved rather than being chopped into segments. Cubic curves are flattened to short lines within a tolerance far below what a printer resolves.
Groups with an id become PDF layers you can switch on and off in a reader's layers panel.
What it drops
Fills, strokes, colours and line widths. The PDF is outlines in thin black, because that is what the drawing pipeline behind this page carries.
Text is refused rather than dropped, along with images, gradients, filters, clipping paths, masks and stylesheets. Convert text to paths before exporting and it arrives as geometry that cannot shift.
Limits
SVG files are limited to 1 MiB, 2,048 elements and 20,000 path commands. Text, images, gradients, filters, clipping paths, masks and stylesheets are refused rather than dropped.