Create

Write a PDF from nothing.

Every other tool here starts with a PDF you already have. This one starts with a blank page. Set the paper up, write the content, and export a real PDF with selectable text — built in this tab, never uploaded, with no account and no watermark.

Document builder

The 8 starting points

Each template is scaffolding to replace rather than filler to keep. Square brackets mark every spot meant to be edited, so nothing ships to a real recipient still saying “[Recipient name]” without you noticing.

Blank document

Anything that does not fit the other shapes — start here and build it block by block.

Formal letter

Complaints, notice periods, appeals and anything else that may be read by someone who was not part of the conversation.

Meeting notes

Circulating a written record after a call. The separate decisions and actions sections are what make it useful a month later.

Invoice

Billing a client without a spreadsheet. Real measured cells keep quantities, rates and totals aligned even when a description wraps.

Intake form

A printable form to hand out — or to open straight in the editor, where the AI scan turns the ruled lines into fillable fields.

Government application

Preparing a clear cover application for a public program while keeping identifiers, requested evidence and the signed declaration easy to audit.

General application

Applying for a role, grant, course or volunteer opportunity when the recipient asks for a structured statement rather than a fixed form.

Consent form

Documenting a specific permission in plain language while keeping the purpose, limits, withdrawal path and signatures together on the same record.

What comes out

Real text, not a picture of text

Every paragraph is embedded as selectable, searchable, copyable text. Ctrl+F finds it, and a later edit in the editor treats it as text rather than an image. The creator does not emit a tagged structure tree, so this is not a PDF/UA or tagged-PDF accessibility claim.

Pagination that behaves

Content flows down the page and moves to the next one when it runs out of room. A block taller than a whole page splits across as many pages as it needs instead of vanishing off the bottom edge, and an explicit page break starts a new sheet wherever you want one.

Page setup that matches your printer

A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5, Tabloid or a custom size in points, portrait or landscape, with margins set per edge. Margins are measured to the text's em box, so a one-inch top margin puts the first cap-height exactly one inch below the paper edge.

Page numbers in any of nine positions

Plain numbers, “Page 3”, or “3 of 12”, at any corner or centre, top or bottom — and the first page can be left unnumbered, which is what a title page usually wants.

Images, at the size you choose

Drop a logo into a letterhead or a photograph into a report. PNG and JPEG are embedded as they are; anything else — WebP, AVIF, GIF, SVG — is converted first, so you find out at the moment you pick the file rather than at export. Set a width in points or let it fill the column, and align it left, centre or right.

Rules that survive a font change

A real drawn line with its own thickness, width and colour, not a row of underscores in a text block. The underscore trick is what most people fall back on, and it re-wraps the moment the typeface or the margins change.

Measured tables with wrapping cells

Build a real grid with weighted columns, optional repeating headers, full or horizontal rules, per-cell alignment and alternating row fills. Text wraps inside its own cell and a long table continues across pages without collapsing its columns.

Boxes, circles, lines and arrows placed by coordinates

Add an outlined or filled rectangle or ellipse, a horizontal or diagonal line, or an arrow, and position it relative to the document flow. Shapes are vector graphics in both the preview and exported PDF, so they stay crisp when zoomed.

Lists, reusable headers and explicit pages

Bulleted and numbered lists keep a measured hanging indent. Headers and footers can reuse live {page} and {pages} values, while authored page sections can be added, deleted and reordered independently from automatic overflow pages.

Local font embedding with explicit variants

Supply separate regular, bold and italic TTF or OTF files, plus bold italic if needed. The same embedded metrics drive preview and export; missing variants and glyphs fail instead of being synthesized, and the font bytes are never stored implicitly.

What it does not do yet

Knowing the edges up front is worth more than one more feature bullet.

Tables do not merge or vertically align cells

Tables wrap text, size columns, repeat headers and draw real borders, but they do not merge cells, set a different background on one body cell, or expose per-cell vertical alignment. Use a header fill and alternating body rows for the supported emphasis styles.

Shapes are coordinate blocks, not a drawing canvas

Rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows are available with exact dimensions and offsets. Arbitrary Bézier paths, rotation handles and drag-anywhere page composition are not available yet; labelled numeric controls remain available for every position and size.

An image is placed, not flowed

Each image sits on its own line at the width you give it. Text does not wrap around it, and two images do not sit side by side. An image taller than the page is shrunk to fit rather than split across two, because half a photograph on each of two pages is never what anyone meant.

Custom fonts need real variant files

Helvetica, Times and Courier remain built in. A custom font must be a local TTF or OTF with separate regular, bold and italic files; bold italic is used only when supplied. Novus never fabricates a missing style, and you are responsible for a licence that permits PDF embedding.

Every selected font still needs the glyph

The standard families cover Western European text, replacing unsupported characters with a question mark and a preview warning. A custom font keeps Unicode text only when its selected variant actually contains every glyph; otherwise export stops with a specific error so nothing silently disappears.

No cloud copy, and no recovery

The document exists in this tab only. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing is backed up either: closing the tab loses the draft. Download the PDF when you are happy with it.

After you export

A created PDF is an ordinary PDF, so the rest of the toolkit applies to it. Open it in the PDF Editor to sign it or fill the ruled lines the intake template draws — the field scan reads those rules the same way it reads a government form. Add a password with protect, combine it with other documents using merge, or renumber the combined result with page numbers.