Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. This conversion runs inside your browser using your own device’s processing power, and the file is not uploaded. Once a tool has been used once (video, text recognition and background removal download their engine from this site the first time), it keeps working when your connection drops.

Which sheet size should I choose?

The paper you will print on: A4 in most of the world, Letter in North America. “Same as the first page” keeps the source page size, which is right when the file is not going to paper at all.

Do links and form fields survive?

No. The pages are placed as drawings, so their text and graphics come along but interactive links and form fields do not. Flatten the form first if the values must be visible on the sheet.

Can I make a booklet with this?

Not a folded booklet — that needs pages reordered in printer spreads. This tool keeps reading order, which is what handouts and notes need.

Pages per sheet: 2, 4, 6 or 9 PDF pages on one page

Runs on your device · Your file never leaves your device.

Handouts, slide decks, study notes and long contracts print with far less paper when several pages share a sheet. Pick how many pages per sheet, the sheet size and orientation, and download a new PDF that any printer handles as ordinary single pages.

Each source page is placed as a live PDF drawing, scaled to fit its cell and centred, in reading order — left to right, then top to bottom. Text stays selectable and vector graphics stay sharp at any zoom, because nothing is rasterised. An optional thin border is drawn around each page and helps when pages have white backgrounds.

Two pages per sheet go side by side on a landscape sheet (or stacked on a portrait one); four make a 2×2 grid; six a 3×2 grid; nine a 3×3 grid. Pages that were rotated in the source are turned the right way up before they are placed.

How to make a Pages per sheet

Add the PDF.
Choose 2, 4, 6 or 9 per sheet, then the sheet size and orientation.
Press Build sheets and download the new PDF.

Supported formats and limits

Input: PDF (any version)
Layouts: 2 (side by side or stacked), 4 (2×2), 6 (3×2 or 2×3), 9 (3×3)
Sheet: A4, Letter or the first page’s size; portrait or landscape
Text: Stays selectable — pages are embedded, not rendered
Where it runs: In your browser; nothing uploaded

Not for: Booklet imposition or keeping interactive links and form fields — the pages are embedded as drawings in reading order.

Which orientation gives the biggest pages

Every sheet keeps an 8 mm margin at its edges and 4 mm between pages, and each page is scaled as large as its cell allows without being stretched. So the orientation you pick decides how big each page prints. For portrait pages on A4: two per sheet on a landscape sheet prints each page at about 65% of its size, on a portrait sheet only about 47%. Four per sheet is the other way round, about 45% on portrait and 32% on landscape. Nine per sheet gives about 30% on portrait, 21% on landscape. Six is about a third either way.

Wide 16:9 slides follow the opposite rule: portrait for two per sheet (about 57%), landscape for four (about 41%). The tool opens on landscape, so check the orientation before you build. As a guide, 11-point text at 45% is about 5 points high; print one sheet and read it before printing the rest.

Getting more out of each cell

Only the visible area of each page, set by its crop box, is placed on the sheet, so wide white margins take space in every cell. Trim them first with /crop-pdf and each page’s content is enlarged to fill its cell instead. Pages smaller than their cell are enlarged too, and in a document with mixed sizes each page is fitted to its own cell. “Same as the first page” uses that page’s size for every sheet, turned to the orientation you choose.

Print the result at actual size with the printer’s own pages-per-sheet setting off, or the pages shrink a second time.

What the new file contains

The result is a new PDF named after the original with “-4-up” (or the number you chose) added. When the page count does not divide evenly, the last sheet has empty cells. The optional border is drawn tightly around each page, not around its cell, so pages of different shapes each get a frame that fits them.

Highlights, sticky notes and stamps added in a PDF reader are stored outside the page content, like links and form fields, so they do not appear on the sheets. To keep them, use “Everything” in /flatten-pdf first; the cost is that the text becomes an image.

Pages always fill a sheet from the top left. For a right-to-left document printed two per sheet, page 1 lands on the left; swap each pair in /reorder-pdf-pages first if it must sit on the right. A PDF restricted only against editing or printing is accepted as it is, one that needs a password to open asks for it, and the new file has no password.

Frequently asked questions

Are my files uploaded to a server?: No. This conversion runs inside your browser using your own device’s processing power, and the file is not uploaded. Once a tool has been used once (video, text recognition and background removal download their engine from this site the first time), it keeps working when your connection drops.
Which sheet size should I choose?: The paper you will print on: A4 in most of the world, Letter in North America. “Same as the first page” keeps the source page size, which is right when the file is not going to paper at all.
Do links and form fields survive?: No. The pages are placed as drawings, so their text and graphics come along but interactive links and form fields do not. Flatten the form first if the values must be visible on the sheet.
Can I make a booklet with this?: Not a folded booklet — that needs pages reordered in printer spreads. This tool keeps reading order, which is what handouts and notes need.