FB2 to PDF Converter turns a FictionBook ebook into a fixed-page PDF that prints well and opens on any computer, phone or tablet without a special reader. Drop in an .fb2 file or an .fb2.zip archive, choose a page size (A4, US Letter, A5 or a 6 by 9 inch book page), a text size and margins, and download the PDF. The text in the PDF is real text, not pictures of pages, so it can be selected, copied and searched, and the file stays small. Chapters, poems, epigraphs, citations, images and footnotes are carried over, the cover becomes the first page, a contents page links to every chapter and PDF bookmarks mirror the structure of the book. The PDF embeds an open source font that covers Cyrillic, Latin with all European diacritics and Greek, which matters because most FB2 books are in Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian, and FB2 files saved in windows-1251 or KOI8-R are decoded correctly. The conversion happens in your browser and the book is never uploaded. To read the book on screen instead use FB2 Reader, to get a reflowable ebook for Kindle, Kobo or Apple Books use FB2 to EPUB Converter, and for plain text or Word use FB2 to Text & Word.
An FB2 book has no pages. It is an XML document that marks up sections, titles, paragraphs, poems and footnotes, and leaves the layout to the reading app, which is why the same FB2 file looks different in every reader. A PDF is the opposite: every line sits at a fixed position on a fixed page, which is what you want for printing, sharing a book with someone who has no ebook app, or reading on a large screen. Converting FB2 to PDF therefore means laying the book out from scratch. This converter first turns the FB2 structure into EPUB chapters, with each FB2 section as a chapter, titles as headings, verse lines kept on their own lines and base64 images decoded into real pictures. It then sets the text in the chosen page size with real line breaking and page breaking, and draws headings, quotes and images with consistent spacing. Bookmarks and the contents page are built from the chapter titles, so long novels split into parts and chapters stay easy to navigate. The font question matters more for FB2 than for most formats. The standard PDF fonts only know Western European letters, so Cyrillic text would come out as empty boxes or wrong characters. Embedding a font with Cyrillic coverage avoids that, and the font travels inside the PDF so the book looks the same on every device.