Add Margins to PDF
Add white margins around PDF pages for printing, binding, or notes. Grow the page or scale content — free, private, no upload.
Add breathing room around PDF pages
Edge-to-edge PDFs clip on printers and leave no space for punching, binding, or handwritten notes. Add a uniform margin either by growing the page (content unchanged) or by scaling content down inside the existing page size. Everything runs locally.
What you can do with it
- Prepare for hole punching or spiral binding
- Add margin so binding never overlaps text.
- Leave room for annotations
- Create white space for review comments on printed drafts.
How to add margins to a PDF
- Open your PDF — it loads locally with no upload.
- Set the margin in millimeters and choose grow-the-page or keep-page-size.
- Click Add margins & download.
Grow the page or shrink the content?
Growing the page keeps content at 100% scale — best for binding margins where readability matters and page size is flexible. Keeping the page size scales content down inside the margin box — best when a portal or printer requires the exact original dimensions.
Margins for annotation workflows
Reviewers who mark up printed drafts need whitespace. A 15–20 mm margin on all sides leaves comfortable room for handwriting without touching the original layout, and the whole adjustment happens in your browser.
Related reading and tools
- Resize PDF pages — Change the page size itself rather than adding whitespace.
- Free PDF editor — crop — The opposite job: remove margins or crop content away.