Reading on a phone
Width 1400, quality 80. Small files, and text stays clear at normal zoom.
Scribd to PDF converter
Turn any public Scribd document into a single PDF file. This page explains exactly what you get — page order, resolution, text, and file size — so you can pick the right setting before you convert.
What the PDF looks like
ScribSave does not rebuild your document from scratch. It opens the same public viewer you would see on scribd.com, captures each page as it is displayed, and joins the captures in order. What you see in the viewer is what lands in the file.
| Property | What you get |
|---|---|
| Pages | The complete document, in the original order, not a preview. |
| Watermark | None. Nothing is overlaid on the pages. |
| Text | Selectable and searchable wherever Scribd publishes a text layer. Scanned documents remain images. |
| Resolution | 800–2400 px wide. 1800 px suits most screens and keeps files reasonable. |
| Image quality | JPEG 50–95. 82 is a good balance; raise it for small print. |
| Page numbers | Kept as printed, so the file reads in the same sequence as the original. |
| File size | Typically 150 KB–3 MB for a normal document, depending on length and setting. |
| Format | A single .pdf containing every page. |
Choosing a setting
The two controls are width and quality. Width sets how many pixels wide each page is captured; quality sets how much compression the image suffers. They trade file size against legibility, and nothing else changes.
Reading on paper
Width 1800–2200, quality 85. Worth the extra megabytes for dense text.
Archiving
Width 2400, quality 92. The largest, most faithful file. Slowest to convert.
What can go wrong
A conversion fails when the document is private, removed, restricted, or long enough to exceed the size limit. The page tells you which of those it was rather than showing a generic error, so you know whether retrying is worth it. For the limits in force, see the features page.
Ready to try it? Paste your Scribd link above, or read how the conversion works first.