Turn subtitles and plain text files into a PDF file.
Converting Subtitles to PDF
This tool takes your subtitle files and turns them into a PDF file. The resulting PDF can be opened on almost any device, and is easy to annotate or print. You can upload multiple files at once, or a ZIP archive to convert many subtitles at once. Supported formats include SRT, ASS, SSA, SMI, MicroDVD SUB, WebVTT and plain text.
Converting Plain Text Files to PDF
Apart from subtitles, this tool also accepts plain text files. Any plain text file you upload is also converted to PDF, usually recognized by its .txt extension. You can upload both subtitle files and plain text files at the same time. The "include cue timestamps" and "empty line between cues" options are ignored for plain text files, since they do not contain any cues or timestamps.
Why Convert Subtitles to PDF?
A PDF is the most portable document format around. Converting a subtitle or transcript to PDF is useful when you want to print a transcript, share a subtitle file with someone who does not use video players, or keep a permanent readable copy for study and translation. Because conversion runs entirely in your browser, your subtitle text never leaves your device.
What the PDF Looks Like
Each subtitle cue becomes readable lines in the document. Subtitle markup — italic tags, WebVTT voice tags, ASS override blocks, color codes — is stripped so only the dialogue is printed. Enable cue timestamps to prefix every cue with its start and end time (for example [00:01:23,456 --> 00:01:25,000]), which is handy for study notes and translation reference. The empty line between cues option adds breathing room for annotation, while file names and page numbers keep multi-file documents organized.
One note on fonts: the built-in PDF font covers Latin text (including accents such as café, naïve, and common punctuation), but characters outside that set — Chinese, Japanese, and Korean glyphs, emoji, and symbols like ★ — are replaced with "?" so the file still generates instead of failing. For CJK content, convert to a plain text transcript first, which preserves every character, and print it with a CJK-capable word processor.
From Subtitles to a Shareable Document
The typical workflow is: fix the timing, extract the text, then print. If your subtitles drift out of sync, correct them first with our subtitle sync tool. If you only need the words without layout, our subtitles to text converter produces the same cleaned transcript as a TXT file. Learning Mandarin? Add romanization with the pinyin subtitle tool before printing your study sheets. To find subtitled films to work with, browse our movies collection, and read our blog guides for printing and subtitle-format tips.