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Make a PDF from photos

How to combine photos, scans or a whole folder of pictures into one PDF with vivePDF, and choose the paper size, orientation and margin.

To make a PDF from photos, open Tools › Convert, choose Images → PDF on the left, add the pictures and click Convert. Each picture becomes a page; JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, TIFF and many other picture types are supported.

  1. Open Tools › Convert and choose Images → PDF in the list on the left.
  2. Choose the pictures with Add images, or drag them onto the window. For a whole folder, use Add folder.
  3. Set the order with the up and down arrows.
  4. Choose the Paper size, the Orientation and how each picture is placed: Fit whole image never crops, Fill the page covers the page edge to edge.
  5. Click Convert.
Images → PDF: three photos in the list, A4 paper, automatic orientation and Fit whole image selected

With the orientation on automatic, landscape photos go on landscape pages and portrait photos on portrait pages. Margin leaves a white border around each picture.

Conversion finished: a preview of the 3-page PDF and photos.pdf

Photos of paper documents

If you photographed a paper document with your phone, From photo in Tools › Scans gives a better result: it finds the corners of the sheet, straightens the perspective and whitens the background.

Every conversion option is on the Convert files page.