AVIF to PDF Converter

Convert AVIF to PDF Online

AVIF is superb at making a photo small, and awkward at getting that photo to another person. Native decoding only arrived in Chrome 85, Firefox 93, Safari 16.4 (iOS 16.0) and Edge 121, so an AVIF attachment still breaks in plenty of mail clients, ticketing systems, print shops and document portals. A PDF sidesteps all of it: fixed page geometry, an opaque page, and a viewer on every desktop and phone. Drop in one AVIF for a single-page document, or a dozen for a multi-page one. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared or made public.

How to Convert AVIF to PDF

1. Upload Your AVIF Files: Drag your .avif files onto the page or click "+ Add Files". Upload order is page order, so add them in the sequence you want them bound.
2. Choose Single PDF or Individual PDFs: Under Combine?, the default Single PDF puts every image on its own page inside one document. Individual PDFs gives you one PDF per image instead.
3. Set Paper Size, Margin and Placement: Paper size defaults to A4; pick Original to make each page match the image's own proportions. Margin defaults to Narrow (0.5"), Page layout to Portrait, Image placement to Contained and Image alignment to Center. Lower the Image Quality (%) slider (75 by default) only when you need a smaller file.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save the PDF. No sign-up, no watermark.

Paper Size and Margin Reference

The most-used presets in the Paper size dropdown, with the page each one produces. Dimensions are in inches; the converter lays the decoded image inside that rectangle, minus the margin you pick.

The Margin presets are No margin (0"), Narrow (0.5" all round), Moderate (0.75" sides, 1" top and bottom), Normal (1" all round) and Large (2" sides, 1" top and bottom).

Placement, Alignment and Quality — What to Set

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the AVIF lose quality when it becomes a PDF?

A little, by default. A PDF page cannot hold an AVIF-coded image, so the converter decodes your file and re-encodes it as a JPEG at the Image Quality (%) value — 75 unless you change it — before placing it on the page. At 90-100% the difference is invisible for ordinary photos; below about 60% you will start to see JPEG artefacts in flat gradients and around hard edges. Page geometry (paper size, margins, alignment) never touches the pixels; it only decides where they sit.

Does the PDF keep the transparency from my AVIF?

No — transparent areas come out white. AVIF can carry an alpha channel, but the intermediate JPEG cannot, so alpha is matted onto a white background before the image reaches the page. The Image Transparency control on the page (Unchanged / Removed) only changes behaviour for PNG sources, so for an AVIF the result is the same either way. If you need the alpha channel to survive, convert to AVIF to PNG instead and place that file yourself.

Can I put several AVIF photos into one PDF?

Yes. Add as many .avif files as you like, leave Combine? on Single PDF, and each image becomes one page in upload order. Switch to Individual PDFs to get a separate document per image instead. If you are starting from a mixed folder of image types rather than AVIF alone, Merge Image to PDF accepts JPG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC, RAW and more in the same job.

Should I choose A4 or Original for the paper size?

Choose a fixed size — A4 or Letter — when the PDF will be printed or filed, because printers and document systems expect a standard sheet. Choose Original when the PDF is only going to be read on screen and you do not want white bands around a photo: the page is built to the image's own proportions, so nothing is letterboxed.

What is the difference between Contained and Cover placement?

Contained scales the image until the whole thing fits inside the printable area, leaving white space on the two sides where the aspect ratios disagree — nothing is cut off. Cover scales it until the printable area is completely filled, which means the overhanging edges are cropped away. Contained is the default and the safe choice for documents; Cover is for full-bleed, poster-style pages where losing a strip of sky does not matter.

Why is my PDF so much bigger than the AVIF file?

Because AVIF's AV1 encoder is far more efficient than the JPEG encoding a PDF page uses, and because the PDF adds its own structure on top. A 300 KB AVIF can easily land in a PDF of a megabyte or more. Lowering Image Quality (%) is the first lever; scaling the image down before conversion is the second. If the finished document is still too big to send, run it through Compress PDF.

Can I get the image back out of the PDF afterwards?

You can extract the embedded JPEG with most PDF tools, but it will be the re-encoded copy, not your original AVIF — a PDF is a delivery format, not an archive of the source file. Keep the .avif if you may need to re-edit later, or make an editing master first with AVIF to TIFF and set its Compression Type to LZW or Deflate so nothing is re-compressed lossily.

Is there a limit on how many AVIF files I can add?

There is no fixed page count, and AVIF files are usually tiny, so a long batch is normally limited by how long the upload takes rather than by the images themselves. Very high-resolution scans over a slow connection are the case to watch. Everything is processed on our servers and removed automatically after a few hours, with no sign-up and no watermark.