Convert an EPUB E-book to a Printable PDF
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Pick a DRM-free EPUB and get fixed, numbered pages with its chapters, pictures and footnotes in place. The book is unpacked and set in type by a worker running inside this page, so your reading list stays your own business.
An e-book, set in pages.
Add the e-book
Drop in an .epub you are free to use: a public-domain classic, a DRM-free purchase or a manuscript you exported yourself.
Set up the pages
The starting point is A4 portrait, 11 pt serif text and generous 22 mm margins. Adjust any of them for screen reading, printing or large print.
Convert and save
Press Convert to PDF. When the book is typeset, open it in the viewer to check a chapter or two, then save it.
Why readers want a book on fixed pages.
EPUB is perfect for a phone in your pocket. Paper, citations, proofreading and some devices all ask for something that does not reflow.
Annotating a classic
Print a public-domain novel for a reading group or literature class and fill the wide margins with your own notes and underlining.
Studying with a PDF app
Course readings published as EPUB fit better into a workflow built around a PDF annotator, where highlights and page numbers stay put.
Proof copies for editors
Self-publishing authors can turn their exported EPUB into a fixed-page proof that an editor or beta reader can mark up by page and line.
Large print for a relative
Set the text to 16 or 18 pt in the sans-serif face and print a book for someone who struggles with small type or with e-reader screens.
Devices with no EPUB reader
A locked-down work laptop or an older tablet may only open PDFs. Converting the book first means it opens anywhere with a built-in viewer.
Binding a personal copy
Some readers like a physical copy of a free book. A clean PDF with page numbers goes straight to a home printer or a local print shop.
Reflowable in, fixed pages out
An EPUB has no pages of its own. Inside, it is a zipped bundle of web-style chapter files, pictures and a reading order, and your e-reader decides line breaks and page turns on the fly for whatever screen and font size you picked. A PDF is the opposite: every line is fixed in place before anyone opens it. Converting one into the other therefore means typesetting the book from scratch, not copying pages.
Here, Pandoc reads the chapters in the order the book declares and gathers headings, paragraphs, emphasis, lists, tables, footnotes and images. Typst then sets them on the paper you chose, justifying paragraphs, keeping pictures inside the text column and starting each top-level chapter heading on a new page. Because the layout is decided at conversion time, the text size you choose changes the page count: a novel that fills 200 pages at 11 pt will need a good many more at 16 pt.
That makes the settings worth a moment's thought before you press the button. The table suggests a starting point for common jobs; for the paper-saving recipe, run the finished PDF through Multiple Pages per Sheet to print two book pages on each side of a sheet.
| The job | Settings to try |
|---|---|
| Reading on a tablet or laptop | A4 or Letter, portrait, 12 pt serif, 15 mm margins |
| Printing and binding at home | A4 or Letter, portrait, 11 pt serif, keep the 22 mm margins |
| Large print | A4 or Letter, portrait, 16 to 18 pt sans-serif, 18 mm margins |
| Saving paper on a long novel | 10 pt serif, chapter breaks off, then two pages per sheet |
| Textbook with wide tables | Landscape, sans-serif, compact tables on |
Questions answered.
Why does a book I bought refuse to convert?
Where can I find DRM-free EPUB files?
Will the PDF look like the book in my e-reader app?
Can I make a large-print copy?
Does every chapter start on a fresh page?
What about comics, picture books and fixed-layout EPUBs?
Is there a size limit?
Why is the first conversion slower than the rest?
Does the book leave my computer?
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