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JPG to PDF on Mac

Combine JPG or PNG images into a single PDF, one image per page.

Drop your JPG or PNG files here

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JPG or PNG files — up to 60, max 40 MB each. Files are processed on this device.

If you are on a Mac and need to convert a JPG or PNG file, this page is the whole solution. Nothing to install, nothing to buy, and no account — add your file and the tool is ready.

macOS does ship with Preview, which is better at PDFs than most operating systems' built-in viewers — it can reorder pages in the sidebar and export a selection. But it is awkward for anything beyond the basics, its behaviour has shifted between macOS releases, and it cannot compress to a target size or convert between document formats. The usual next step is Adobe Acrobat, which means a subscription for a job that takes thirty seconds.

This runs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Arc or Brave on macOS, and works identically on Apple Silicon and older Intel Macs. There is no .dmg to mount, no application to drag to your Applications folder, no Gatekeeper warning about an unidentified developer, and no login item quietly added to your system.

Photographs and scans arrive as separate image files, but almost everyone who asks for them wants a single document. Turning a folder of JPGs into one PDF is the difference between sending twelve attachments and sending one tidy file that opens in order.

Add your images, arrange them into the sequence you want, and choose how they should sit on the page. Fit them onto A4 pages with margins for something that prints predictably, or size each page to its image exactly when the images are the point.

How to convert a JPG or PNG file

  1. Add your images

    Drop in JPG or PNG files — up to sixty at a time, added in as many goes as you like.

  2. Arrange them

    Use the up and down controls to set the page order, and remove anything you added by mistake.

  3. Choose the page size

    A4 with margins scales each image to fit inside the page. Match-the-image makes each page exactly the size of its picture.

  4. Set orientation and margin

    Orientation can follow each image automatically or be forced to portrait or landscape. The margin applies to A4 pages only.

  5. Create and download

    Press Create PDF, read through the preview, and download the finished document.

Why use this jpg to pdf tool

No Mac software to install

No application, no package and no app store download. The jpg to pdf tool runs in the browser already on your Mac device.

Identical output everywhere

The same code runs on every platform, so a file produced on a Mac is identical to one produced anywhere else.

Standard download handling

Finished files go to your usual downloads location and behave like any other file on Mac.

You control the order

Images are placed in the order shown on screen. Move them up and down until the sequence is right — the numbers tell you where each one lands.

Two page strategies

A4 with margins gives you a document that prints consistently. Match-the-image gives you a PDF with no cropping and no wasted space.

Mixed formats welcome

JPG and PNG can be combined in the same document, and mis-labelled files are detected and decoded correctly anyway.

Features

  • Up to 60 imagesCombine as many as sixty pictures into one document.
  • ReorderableArrange the pages before you build the PDF.
  • A4 or image-sized pagesChoose predictable printing or exact reproduction.
  • Auto orientationEach page can follow the shape of its own image.
  • Adjustable margins0 to 120 points of white space around each image.

When people use this

Turning phone photos into a document

Photograph each page of a paper document and combine the pictures into a single PDF that can be emailed or uploaded as one file.

Submitting supporting images

Insurance claims, expense reports and applications often want one file. Combine your receipts and photographs into one PDF.

Building a simple portfolio

Arrange images in a deliberate order and produce a document that opens the same way for everybody.

Archiving a set of scans

Keep related images together as one file rather than as a folder that can be split up or partially lost.

Using the jpg to pdf tool on Mac

Finished files land in your Downloads folder, or wherever you have pointed your browser. In Safari you can also hold the download and choose Save As if you would rather file it directly. Everything happens on your Mac — nothing is sent to iCloud or anywhere else.

The tool itself behaves identically regardless of what you are running it on. The same options, the same validation, the same progress reporting and the same output — a file produced on a Mac is byte-for-byte equivalent to one produced anywhere else, because the same code does the work in both cases.

That consistency is worth something practical. Start a job on a Mac and finish it on a different device, or hand the page to a colleague on another platform, and neither of you has to learn a different interface or account for a difference in behaviour.

How image to PDF works

Each image is read as bytes and embedded into a new PDF document with pdf-lib, using the JPEG or PNG embedder as appropriate. If the first decoder rejects the file, the other one is tried before reporting an error, which handles files whose extension does not match their real format.

In A4 mode the tool works out the largest scale at which the image fits inside the page minus your margins, then centres it. When orientation is set to follow the image, a picture wider than it is tall gets a landscape page. In match mode the page is created at the image's own pixel dimensions and the image is drawn edge to edge.

Privacy

Your files are not uploaded. When you add a JPG or PNG file, your browser reads it from your device into the memory of the tab you are looking at, and the jpg to pdf operation runs there using your own processor. Nothing is transmitted to any server at any point.

That means there is no file for anyone to store, no retention policy to trust, and no deletion schedule to take on faith. The document exists only in the memory of an open browser tab, and it is released the moment you close it, reload the page, or press start over.

The site uses standard anonymous analytics to count page views and how often each tool is used. Those events record which tool ran and whether it succeeded — never a file name, never file contents, and never anything that could identify a document or the person processing it.

No account is required, so no personal information is collected. There is no profile, no history and nothing tied to an identity, because no identity was ever created.

Security

The strongest security property this tool has is structural: your file never travels anywhere, so there is no transmission to intercept and no server-side copy to breach. This is not a policy that could change — it is a consequence of where the code runs.

You can verify it in about thirty seconds. Open your browser's developer tools with F12, select the Network tab, and use the tool. You will see the page's scripts load — including the PDF libraries, which are fetched on demand the first time a tool runs — and then nothing further. No request carrying your document is ever made.

For a stronger test, disconnect from the network once the page has loaded. The tool will keep working exactly as before, which is only possible because nothing is being sent.

Uploaded files are validated in the browser before anything runs: the extension must match what the tool accepts, the file must not be empty, and it must be within the size limit. Malformed documents produce a clear error and a retry option rather than a silent failure.

What this tool does not do

Being clear about limits is more useful than a feature list that quietly omits them. One image per page, JPG and PNG only, with no cropping, rotation or multi-image page layouts.

If you need capabilities beyond that — redaction, PDF/A conformance, OCR, or scripted batch processing across thousands of documents — dedicated desktop software genuinely earns its licence fee, and this is not trying to replace it. For the specific job of producing a PDF, everything you need is on this page.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need Adobe Acrobat or a Mac App Store app for this?
No. Everything runs in your browser, so there is nothing to buy, download or install. It works the same on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and on every version of macOS with a current browser.
Is the jpg to pdf tool different on Mac?
No. It is the same tool with the same options and the same processing code. Only the browser and the download location differ.
Which image formats are supported?
JPG and PNG. If a file has the wrong extension — a JPEG named .png, which cameras and messaging apps do produce — the tool detects the mismatch and decodes it correctly instead of failing.
What is the difference between the two page size options?
A4 with margins scales each image to fit inside a standard A4 page and centres it, which is what you want for anything that will be printed. Match-the-image makes each page exactly the pixel dimensions of its image, so nothing is scaled or cropped — better when the images are the content and printing is not the goal.
Can I change the order of the images?
Yes. Every image in the list has up and down controls, and the number beside it is the page it will become. Rearrange as much as you like before creating the PDF.
Will the images be compressed?
No. Images are embedded into the PDF in their original encoding, so the quality is exactly what you started with. If the result is too large, run it through the Compress PDF tool afterwards.
Can I put more than one image on a page?
Not currently — the tool places one image per page. For a contact-sheet layout you would need to combine the images before converting.

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