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LaTeX to PDF

A paper, a CV or a letter typeset by a real TeX engine; figures in a ZIP beside it.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert LaTeX to PDF

  1. Drop the .tex file, or a ZIP with main.tex and its figures.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Compile and download the PDF.

What happens to your file

Tectonic — a complete, modern TeX engine — runs the document as many passes as it needs, fetching any package it names from CTAN into a cache Fylane keeps warm. Shell escape is off: a document is typeset, never executed.

A document that does not compile comes back with TeX’s first error in its own words (“Undefined control sequence”, the missing file) and the line it stopped on.

Questions

Which packages are available?

Any on CTAN — the common ones are already cached; a rare one is fetched on first use. BibTeX runs when the document cites; biber does not yet.

Several .tex files?

Name the document main.tex, or make sure only one file has \documentclass; the rest are included from it.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "latex.compile",
    "options": {}
  }'

The same operation, latex.compile — A .tex file, or a ZIP with main.tex and its figures, typeset to PDF by Tectonic with shell escape off; TeX’s own first error comes back when it does not compile. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.