Images to PDF with layout

How to use it

1. Drop images on the card, paste a screenshot with ⌘V / Ctrl+V, or press “Choose images”. Images are appended in the order you add them and the PDF is built immediately — there is no Convert button and nothing is uploaded.
2. Pick “Images per page” (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12 or 16). The column × row grid is solved from the paper, the margins and the shapes of your images, and every row shows the same result, so you can read it instead of guessing. Row 1 becomes the first cell, row 2 the second, and so on.
3. Set Margin and Gutter as numbers — they show in inches on US and Canadian browsers and in millimetres elsewhere — and choose how the image sits in its cell: show the whole image, fill the cell and crop the edges, or never enlarge. Orientation “Auto” decides per page from the images on it.
4. Open “Layout details” for a custom paper size, the fill order (right to left for RTL sheets), the page background and the output quality. Then check the green “Ready · N pages · M images” line and press “Preview” or “Download PDF”. “Clear” puts every option back to its default.

Example

12 photos added in the order you want them
4032×3024 and 3024×4032, 20 MB each at most

images-layout.pdf — 3 pages, 4 images per page
Grid solved as 2 cols × 2 rows, cell 90 × 128 mm
Pages 1–2: the wider sheet is used when the landscape images outweigh the portrait ones

With “Original (lossless)” the JPEG bytes go in as they are, so 12 photos on 3 pages can still be a large file — the size is shown, never promised. With one image the file is named after it; with several it is images-layout.pdf.

Rules, limits and known issues

• Several images per page always shrinks them: the cell size comes from the paper and the number per page. Use “Images per page: 1”, “Never enlarge”, or the plain Image to PDF tool when you want the natural size.
• “Fill cell, crop edges” cuts image edges: the cell is painted without white borders and the overflow is clipped in the PDF. Your source files are never modified.
• “About 150 / 300 dpi” re-encodes: those two tiers resample to the cell size and write JPEG at quality 0.9, which is lossy. Only “Original (lossless)” promises no recompression, and the numbers are resampling targets, not a sharpness guarantee.
• “Original (lossless)” plus several images per page still gives a big file: nothing is resampled, so all pixels are kept. The result line shows pages and size so you can judge the trade-off.
• Transparent areas take the page background: PNG, WebP and GIF transparency is painted with the chosen background in the 150 / 300 dpi tiers. In the “Original” tier a PNG keeps its transparency mask, but a PDF page is still white paper underneath.
• Animated GIF and WebP images contribute only their first frame.
• HEIC, AVIF and TIFF depend on your browser: Safari usually opens HEIC, Chrome and Firefox usually do not. If the browser cannot open a file you get a clear message — never a blank cell.
• The grid is solved once and used on every page; the last page may keep empty cells. The column × row readout and the cell size are printed on each row.
• Metadata is not kept on purpose: capture time, GPS location, camera model and comments are not written to the PDF. Colour profiles (ICC) in JPEG files are kept.
• “Never enlarge” measures the natural size at 96 DPI: 1 pixel = 0.75 pt (1/96 in).
• If the margins eat the short edge of the paper, the calculation keeps at least 6 pt of usable area, so the image is never squeezed to nothing. The number you typed stays visible.
• Wide-gamut photos: JPEG keeps its ICC profile; converted and resampled images go through the browser canvas in sRGB, so colours can shift slightly.
• Limits: 100 images, 20 MB per image, 150 MB in total, 16 images per page, at most 8 columns and 8 rows, 200 pages; JPEG up to 50 megapixels, other formats up to about 16.8 megapixels; custom paper sides 50–2000 mm (2.0–80.0 in). An image over a limit is rejected on its own; images already in the list are kept.
• Decoding and re-encoding run on the main thread. Resampling 100 images takes a few seconds and the status shows progress per image; the page can feel slow for a moment. Nothing is uploaded, and no dialog blocks you.

Related tools

One image per page with quality first? Use Image to PDF. These tools all run inside this tab.