SRT to PDF — subtitles as a printable script
Turn an .srt subtitle file into a clean printable script: one line per row with its time, ready to print or save as PDF.
About this conversion
An .srt file is easy for a player and hard for a person: numbers, arrows and times between every line. Printed as it is, a film runs to sixty pages of timestamps. Here it becomes a table — the number, the time each line starts and the words — without the arrows, the end times, the tags or the italics markers, laid out to fit far more on a page. The print dialog saves it as PDF. If you need the words without the times, as running text, save it as a Word transcript instead.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
Fix it before you save it
The file stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same subtitles can leave here as VTT, ASS, SBV, SUB (MicroDVD), TTML / DFXP, SAMI (.smi), LRC, TXT, Word or Excel. Before that you can move every line earlier or later, stretch the timing to a different release of the film, remove [DOOR SLAMS] and speaker names, put a second language under the first, and see which lines break the rules studios follow — too long, too fast, overlapping.
Questions
- Can I get it without the times?
- Yes — “Transcript in paragraphs” or “Word — transcript in paragraphs” in Save as join the lines into paragraphs, breaking where the speaker changes or there is a pause.
- The letters print as odd symbols.
- The file is in an old encoding. Use “Text looks wrong?” above the table to read it in the right language before printing.