PDF Format: Print-Ready Documents
Export professional PDF documents perfect for printing, archiving, and sharing with guaranteed formatting.
PDF format exports your transcription as a portable document that looks the same on every device. Perfect for official documents, archiving, and sharing.
What You Get
- Professional layout with margins and spacing
- Header: "Transcription" in bold 20pt font
- Complete metadata: file, date, language, duration
- Horizontal separator line
- Clean, readable body text (12pt)
- Optional timestamps in gray
- Automatic page breaks
- Full Unicode/Cyrillic support
Best Use Cases
- Printing transcriptions
- Official documentation and legal records
- Long-term archiving
- Sharing with guaranteed formatting
- Presentations and reports
- Email attachments (universal compatibility)
Font Selection
TranscribeNext automatically selects the best font for your transcription:
- Latin text → Helvetica (clean, professional)
- Non-Latin text (Cyrillic, Chinese, etc.) → Courier (better Unicode support)
Pro Tip
PDFs preserve exact formatting across all devices. What you see on your screen is exactly what others will see when they open the file.
Document Margins
All PDF exports use standard margins for optimal printing:
- Top: 50pt
- Bottom: 50pt
- Left: 50pt
- Right: 50pt
Timestamps Option
Enable timestamps to include time markers for each segment. Timestamps appear in small gray text above each paragraph.
Important
Very long transcriptions may take a few seconds to generate the PDF. The system automatically handles page breaks when needed.
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