Webpage to PDF: save any web page as a PDF

This free webpage to PDF converter turns any public web page into a PDF from its URL. Paste the address, choose A4 or Letter, orientation, margins, and whether to keep background colors, then pressConvert to PDF: a real Chromium browser opens the page, waits for it to load, and prints it to a PDF with selectable text and working links. There is no sign-up and no watermark. For a page behind a login, use your own browser’s Save as PDF instead — the steps for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, iPhone, and Android are below.

How to convert a webpage to PDF

1. Copy the page address from your browser’s address bar and paste it into the box. If you leave off https://, it is added for you.
2. Pick the paper. A4 is the standard almost everywhere; US Letter is the default in the United States and Canada.
3. Choose a layout. As on screen keeps the design you see in the browser. Print version uses the stylesheet the site wrote for printers, which often strips menus and ads.
4. Press Convert to PDF. Simple pages are ready in a few seconds; heavy pages take longer. The file downloads automatically, named after the page title and today’s date.
5. Check it with Open in a new tab. If something is cut off or missing, change one setting and convert again — see the fixes below.

What each setting does

Paper size and orientation

The page is laid out for the paper you choose, the same way your browser’s print dialog does it, so text reflows to the width of the sheet. Landscape gives wide pages — dashboards, tables, documentation with a side menu — more room: about 40% more width on A4 and about 30% more on US Letter, which is often enough to stop them being clipped.

Margins and scale

Narrow margins (10 mm) suit reading on screen; normal (20 mm) leaves room for printing and hole-punching; none uses the whole sheet. Scale shrinks the entire page: 75% fits most layouts that are slightly too wide, and 60% is a last resort for very wide content.

As on screen or print version

Websites can ship a separate set of print styles. Some are excellent — clean article text, no navigation — and some are years out of date. As on screen ignores them and keeps the page as visitors normally see it; Print version applies them, exactly as Ctrl+P would. If one looks wrong, try the other.

Background colors and images

Browsers leave backgrounds out of printouts by default to save ink, which can make buttons, highlighted code, and colored tables vanish. Leave this on for a faithful copy; turn it off for a lighter, print-friendly file.

Title, date and page numbers

Adds the page title and the date of capture at the top of each sheet and page numbers at the bottom. Useful when the PDF is evidence of what a page said on a given day — a price, a policy, a booking confirmation — or when you will print and staple it.

How to save a webpage as a PDF in your browser

Every major browser can do this on its own, and it is the right method for pages behind a login, for intranet pages, and for anything you would rather not send to a converter. The buttonOpen the page to print it myself opens your URL in a new tab so you can follow these steps.

Chrome and Edge (Windows, Mac, Linux)

1. Press Ctrl+P on Windows or Linux, Cmd+P on a Mac.
2. Set Destination (Edge: Printer) to Save as PDF. If it isn’t listed, open See more.
3. Under More settings, adjust paper size, margins, and scale, and tick Background graphics to keep colors.
4. Click Save and choose where to put the file.

Firefox

1. Open the menu and choose Print, or press Ctrl+P / Cmd+P.
2. Set Destination to Save to PDF.
3. Under More settings, set paper size, scale, and margins, and tick Print backgrounds. The Simplified format strips the page to its article text, but backgrounds are not available with it.
4. Click Save.

Safari on Mac

1. Choose File › Print. If you only see a small dialog, click Show Details.
2. In Safari’s options you can include background colors and images, and print the web address and date in headers and footers.
3. Open the PDF menu at the bottom of the dialog and choose Save as PDF.

iPhone and iPad (Safari)

1. Open the page and tap Share (on some layouts it is under the More or page menu button).
2. Tap Markup to see the page as a PDF and annotate it if you like, then tap Done.
3. Choose Save File To, pick a folder in Files, name the file, and tap Save. Menu labels vary a little between iOS versions.

Android (Chrome)

1. Tap the ⋮ menu, then Share, then Print.
2. At the top, choose Save as PDF as the printer, set paper size and orientation, and tap the PDF download button.

Online converter or the print dialog: which to use

• Use the converter for public pages when you want consistent settings, a page that looks like the screen rather than the site’s print styles, lazy images loaded for you, or when you are on a phone where the print flow is fiddly.
• Use your browser for anything behind a login, anything private, and pages that block automated browsers.
• Use the Marqly extension when you want the PDF and the bookmark together: in Chrome and Edge its Save as PDF captures the page exactly as it appears on screen, loads lazy images first, and runs locally in your browser, so it works behind logins too. In Firefox and Safari it falls back to the browser’s print-to-PDF flow.

For the longer story — why printed pages break and how each method compares — read our guide onhow to save a webpage as a PDF without the usual mess.

Common problems and how to fix them

Content is cut off at the edge

Something on the page has a fixed width wider than the paper. Switch to landscape, lower the scale to 75%, or set margins to none. Code blocks and tables that scroll sideways on screen cannot scroll on paper, so they are the usual culprits.

A cookie banner or pop-up is in the PDF

The converter visits the page as a first-time visitor, so it sees the same consent banners you would. Try thePrint version layout — many sites hide overlays in their print styles. If the banner stays, open the page yourself, dismiss it, and save from the print dialog.

Blank boxes where images should be

These are lazy-loaded images that never loaded. The converter forces native lazy images to load and scrolls the page before capturing; images loaded by unusual scripts can still be missed. In your own browser, scroll all the way down before printing.

“The page could not be rendered”

Some sites block automated browsers, demand a login, or never finish loading. The converter waits up to about 25 seconds for a page to settle and then captures what has loaded; if the result is wrong or the conversion fails, use the browser method. URLs on private networks, with a username and password in them, or on ports other than 80 and 443 are refused for security.

The URL is already a PDF

If the address ends in .pdf or the server sends a PDF, there is nothing to convert — open it and use your browser’s download button.

Limits and privacy

• Public pages only. The address is checked before anything loads: http and https on ports 80 and 443, no private or local network addresses, and every redirect is checked again.
• Size and time caps. The page’s HTML can be up to 5 MB and the finished PDF up to 25 MB; rendering stops after about a minute.
• Fair use. Up to five conversions per minute per visitor, with a shared limit across everyone. If the converter is busy, the browser method always works.
• No copies kept. The page is rendered by Cloudflare’s headless browser service and the PDF comes straight back to you; Marqly stores neither the page nor the PDF. Cloudflare’s service logs which addresses it rendered, so convert private pages in your own browser instead.

Cleaning a link before you convert it? The URL cleaner strips tracking parameters such as utm_source and fbclid, so the address printed in your PDF’s header stays readable. Need the text rather than a document? TheHTML to Markdown converter turns page HTML into plain Markdown, and thereading time calculator tells you how long a page takes to read.

When a PDF is the right way to save a page

A PDF freezes a page as it was on one day. That makes it the right choice for receipts and order confirmations, booking details, terms and pricing pages you may need to cite, and anything likely to be edited or taken down. For articles and research you plan to come back to, a bookmark is usually better: it stays current and searchable instead of sitting in a Downloads folder. Withthe Marqly browser extension you can do both — save the page to a board with its title and tags, and keep a PDF of the version you read. If you mainly need to remember what mattered, you can also highlight text on the page itself and keep the highlights with the bookmark.