TXT to GIF Converter

What happens when you convert TXT to GIF

• The TXT is opened by LibreOffice, the open-source office suite, on our conversion server, laid out exactly as it would print, and each page is then drawn as an image by MuPDF at 150 dpi, the resolution most documents are printed at, and saved as a GIF by ImageMagick.
• A one-page TXT gives a single GIF; a longer one comes back as a ZIP file with one GIF per page, named page-01.gif, page-02.gif and so on, for up to 100 pages.
• At 150 dpi, an A4 page becomes about 1240 by 1750 pixels. The longest side is capped at 6,000 pixels.
• GIF allows 256 colours, which is plenty for text and flat colours; photos on the page pick up some banding.
• The text is set in the default font of a new document, one paragraph per line, on A4 pages.
• Where the file uses a font our server does not have, a metric-compatible one is used instead: Carlito for Calibri, Caladea for Cambria and Liberation fonts for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, so lines break where they did. Unusual or decorative fonts may look different.
• This conversion runs on our server: the file is uploaded, converted, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result has been sent back to you. Nothing is kept. Files up to 25 MB are accepted.

How to convert TXT to GIF online

1. Press "Choose TXT files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. Files up to 25 MB each can be converted.
2. There are no settings to choose: the converter keeps everything the target format can hold.
3. Press "Convert to GIF". The file is uploaded to our conversion server, converted in a few seconds, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result is sent back.
4. Save each GIF with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your TXT and the GIF by then.

Why convert TXT to GIF?

TXT files usually come from notes, logs, extracted text and anything that must open everywhere. People convert them to GIF to post a page where only GIF images are accepted, or to keep an image of a text page small with its few colours.

How to convert TXT to GIF on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your TXT files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each GIF is saved to your Downloads folder.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the TXT files from Finder onto the drop zone and the GIF files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose TXT files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted GIF appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose TXT files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The GIF is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for TXT to GIF

There are no settings: every page is rendered at 150 dpi, the longest side is capped at 6,000 pixels, and at most the first 100 pages are converted.

To get one page only, save just that page as its own file first, or pick the image you want out of the ZIP. For a document you will print or send, PDF keeps the text sharp at any size and selectable.

TXT vs GIF: the differences

About TXT and GIF files

What is a TXT file?

A TXT file holds nothing but characters: no fonts, images or layout. Modern text files are usually UTF-8, which covers every language.

What is a GIF file?

GIF stores each frame with a palette of at most 256 colours, so photos turn grainy and animations get large fast. Transparency is on or off per pixel, with no soft edges.

TXT to GIF not working? Common problems

• "Files up to 25 MB can be converted." Server conversions have a size limit. Compress the images inside the file, or split it, and try again.
• "The conversion took too long and was stopped." Very long or complex files can pass the 90 second limit. Split the file and convert the parts.
• "This file is not really in TXT format." The converter checks every file before it runs anything, so a file of another format renamed to .txt is refused. Choose the page for its real format.

Convert TXT to GIF from the command line

LibreOffice and Poppler do the same on your own computer: the first command makes a PDF, the second writes one image per page.

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf input.txt
pdftoppm -r 150 -png input.pdf page
magick mogrify -format gif page-*.png

Converting on your own computer keeps the file entirely local, which is worth it for very large or very sensitive documents. For everything else, the converter on this page does it without installing anything.