UDF to PDF Converter

Why convert a UDF to PDF?

A UDF file opens only in the UYAP Document Editor. When you want to send a document to a client, a colleague, an accountant or a relative, the other person almost certainly does not have it. A PDF opens on every phone, every computer and in every e-mail app. It is also the practical format for printing, archiving, attaching to a report or quoting part of a decision.

This tool reads the text, formatting, tables and images inside the UDF, lays the pages out following the editor's layout rules, and writes the result as a PDF. It does not take a screenshot and paste it into a PDF, so the file is both small and sharp.

What is preserved in the PDF

In a legal document a layout shift can change the meaning, so the following are rebuilt from the settings stored in the UDF:

• Paper size, orientation and margins from the page setup of the UDF.
• Fonts and sizes. Where the UDF uses Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New and similar fonts, open-licensed substitutes with the same letter widths are embedded.
• Turkish characters: ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş, ü and the circumflex letters.
• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, coloured and highlighted text.
• Alignment, indents, line spacing, paragraph spacing and tab stops.
• Numbered and bulleted lists.
• Tables, including horizontally merged cells, and table borders.
• Images in the document and a page background used as a letterhead.
• Header, footer and page numbers.

Known limitations

To be honest, the output is not pixel-for-pixel identical for every document. The embedded fonts match the originals in letter width, but the drawing details differ. Line and page breaks are calculated following the editor's rules, yet in some documents a line may move to the next page. If something cannot be carried over, such as an unrecognised element or a character missing from the font, the tool lists it as a warning on the result screen. For important documents, compare the page count and the position of the signature block with the original.

Why selectable text matters

Some tools draw the UDF on screen and put a picture of it into the PDF. In such a file you cannot search, copy or have the text read aloud, and the file is larger. In the PDF produced here, the letters are real text: you can press Ctrl+F to find a case number, copy a paragraph into a letter or translation tool, and print a sharp page. Because the fonts are embedded in the PDF, it does not matter which fonts are installed on the recipient's computer.

What happens to the e-signature?

Most decisions downloaded from UYAP are e-signed. The signature sits in a separate part of the UDF file and covers only that UDF. When you convert to PDF the content is carried over, but the signature is not, and it cannot be, because the signature does not cover a new file. Treat the PDF as a visual copy. For an official procedure or as evidence, the original is the signed UDF. If the document has a UYAP document verification code, you can use the setting "Print the UYAP verification code at the bottom of the page" to add it to each page, so a recipient can check the original through UYAP's own verification service.

On a phone, on a Mac, or for many files

The steps are the same on a phone: save the file from WhatsApp or your e-mail to your device first, then choose it here. On a Mac, where the UYAP Document Editor can give Java and printing trouble, converting the UDF to PDF and printing from Preview is often the shortest route. If you have many files, select them all: they are converted one after another and can be downloaded together as a single ZIP.

If a file will not open or the tool says it is not a UDF, see Open a UDF file, which explains what the tool can recognise, or read What is a UDF file?.