PDF to GIF Converter

A GIF plays in places where a PDF will not: chat apps, forums, e-mail signatures, README files and slides. This converter renders each PDF page and turns the pages into an animated GIF that flips through them like a slideshow — or saves every page as its own GIF. You choose the width, how long each page stays on screen, whether it loops and how many colours to use. Pages are rendered in your browser and never uploaded.

How to use this tool

1. Choose one or more PDFs.
2. Pick "One animated GIF" for a slideshow, or "One still GIF per page".
3. Set the width (480 px is a good default) and the seconds per page.
4. Optionally limit the pages or reduce the colours for a smaller file, then download.

Formula

Each page is drawn at scale = width ÷ page width. For an animation every frame is as tall as the tallest page; shorter pages are centred on white. Each frame gets its own palette of up to 256 colours chosen by colour quantisation, and the delay is stored in hundredths of a second.

Loop forever writes the NETSCAPE looping block with a count of 0; "Play once" leaves it out, which every browser plays a single time.

Example

A 10-slide 16:9 deck at 480 px wide gives 480 × 270 px frames. At 1.5 s per page one loop lasts 10 × 1.5 = 15 seconds; with text slides the GIF is typically a few hundred kilobytes.