How to turn a long screenshot into a multi-page PDF

Scrolling screenshots are great for capturing a whole chat, order history or article. But put one into a normal PDF converter and it gets squeezed onto a single page, as a tall strip with text too small to read. What you want is the image cut into page-height pieces, each filling the page width.

Why converters shrink it

Most converters "fit" each image onto one page. A 1080 × 9000 px screenshot is more than 8 times taller than it is wide. On an A4 page (about 1 : 1.41), fitting the whole height leaves it only about 17% of the page width.

Split it into pages in the browser

1. Open PDFSnap and drop the screenshot in (or paste it with Ctrl+V).
2. Choose A4 or US Letter and keep Split long screenshots across pages ticked.
3. Click Create PDF. The image is scaled to the page width and sliced into as many pages as needed.

PDFSnap only splits images that are more than 1.5 times taller than a page, so ordinary photos and document scans stay one per page. Untick the option if you really want the whole strip on one page.

Tips for clean page breaks

• Use Margin: None if you'll only read it on screen. The pages then join seamlessly when you scroll the PDF.
• A line of text may be cut across two pages. That's unavoidable with an image (there's no text to reflow). If it matters, take two shorter screenshots that break between messages.
• For evidence (chat logs, payment records), keep the original screenshot file too. A PDF is for sharing, the original keeps the full pixels.

How to take a scrolling screenshot

Open the free images-to-PDF tool

Last updated October 2026.