Images to PDF: questions and guides
Each guide here answers one question with a practical example, then takes you to the tool to try it yourself. Guides: 23.
Questions
- How to turn photos into one PDFTurn photos of documents and receipts from your phone into one tidy PDF, choosing the page size, margins and how each photo fits the page.
- I photographed a month of receipts in random order; how do I sort them by date before making one PDF?Receipts photographed in random order? Sort them in the tool's list with move up and move down, drop the extras, then build one PDF for your accountant.
- A portal only accepts a PDF up to 2 MB and my five photos are bigger; how do I get under the limit?Portal wants a PDF under 2 MB and your photos are bigger? Split the limit across the photos, compress each to its share first, then convert and read the size.
- My client is in the US; should my scanned documents PDF use A4 or Letter pages?The real difference between A4 and Letter when you turn document photos into a PDF, what changes on the page, and when to choose each one.
- Why did the top and bottom of my product photo get cut off in the PDF?Why edges disappear when you turn an image into a PDF: fill and crop, or original size. How to read the crop warning and get the whole picture back.
- How do I make a PDF lookbook where every photo fills its page edge to edge with no white frame?Settings for a PDF lookbook with no white frame: page fits the image with a 0 margin, what DPI does to the page size, and when fill and crop on A4 is the better choice.
- My receipt photo looks upright on my phone but comes out sideways in a PDF; why?Why phone photos turn sideways inside PDFs: the EXIF orientation tag that PDF ignores, and how our converter rotates the pixels for real before embedding.
- How do I print a product label image at a real width of about 10 cm using a PDF?How to print an image at a real size you choose: original size with a DPI value, working out centimetres from pixels, and printing the PDF at actual size.
- The pictures I saved from a supplier's website are WebP; can they go into a PDF?PDF cannot hold WebP, so the tool converts it in your browser to PNG or to JPEG at quality 92 and tells you. When that is enough, and when to convert first yourself.
- My logo is a transparent PNG; why does a color show behind it in the PDF, and how do I control it?PNG images keep their transparency inside the PDF, so the page color shows through. How the colored page background option works and how to pick a color for your logo.
- Is it safe to turn photos of my passport and residence ID into a PDF on a website?Where photos of your passport and residence ID are processed when our tool makes the PDF, and what stays your job: downloaded copies, photo metadata and how you send it.
- How do I build a PDF catalog from my product photos to send on WhatsApp Business instead of twenty separate pictures?Instead of twenty loose photos in a chat: compress them, order them, let orientation follow each photo, then send one numbered PDF catalog to your WhatsApp customers.
- I have 45 photos of a long contract and the tool takes 20 at a time; how do I end up with a single PDF?A tidy way to turn more than 20 images into one PDF: batches with identical settings, clear part names, then merging the parts in the right order.
- What does the error that my margin is larger than the page mean, and how do I fix it?What the margin is larger than the page error means: the margin applies to both sides, and on A5 the room disappears fast. How to choose a margin that works.
- I put a very wide panorama on a page sized to the image and got a page too large error; why?With page fits the image, page size comes from pixels and DPI, and PDF viewers refuse a side over 14400 pt. How to work out a DPI that will work.
- A design file my designer sent shows up with negative-looking colors inside the PDF; what is going on?Why some JPEG images look like a photo negative inside a PDF: the CMYK color mode used for print. The fix is an RGB export, then rebuilding the file.
- How do I combine chat screenshots with a customer into one readable PDF to send to a marketplace's support team?Phone screenshots are very tall, so their text shrinks on an A4 page. Use page fits the image with a 0 margin so the text keeps its size, and order the shots by time.
- Does converting JPG photos to PDF reduce their sharpness?In our tool JPEG photos go into the PDF exactly as they are, with no re-encoding, and PNGs losslessly. The one exception, and where any blur you see really comes from.
- How do I fit two small receipts on each A4 page of a PDF to save paper?The converter puts one image on each page, so join every two receipts into one image with the collage maker first, then turn those into an A4 PDF. Steps and real numbers.
- Amazon Seller Central wants my supplier invoice as a PDF but I only have a photo of it; how do I convert it cleanly?Make a photographed paper invoice look like a tidy PDF document: crop to the paper, straighten it, then A4 with fit inside and a check that the small print is legible.
- How can I make a design portfolio PDF with a black page background instead of white?Build a portfolio PDF that shows each piece on a dark page: the colored page background option, a margin that frames the work, and fit inside so nothing is cropped.
- If I turn my phone photos into a PDF and send it, can the photo location and camera details still be inside?JPEG photos go into the PDF as they are, with EXIF data such as location and phone model. Which photos lose that data, and which need cleaning before you convert.
- How many pixels does an image need to print sharp as a full A4 page?How pixel dimensions relate to a sharp printed A4 page: about 2480 × 3508 px at 300 DPI, and why an 800 × 600 image looks soft on paper whatever you do.