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FB2 to PDF – Simple Steps
Upload FB2
That Russian ebook you downloaded from Lib.ru or Flibusta.
Convert
We parse the XML, preserve the formatting.
Download PDF
Now you can print it or send to anyone.
Print or Share
PDF works everywhere, even without ebook apps.
FB2 Is Great in Russia – But Nowhere Else
FictionBook. FB2. If you've ever downloaded a Russian novel, a Soviet-era textbook, or technical documentation from a Slavic source, you've seen this format. It's XML-based, it's structured, it handles poetry and drama really well. In Russia and Ukraine, it's everywhere. Flibusta, Lib.ru, all the big ebook sites – FB2 is the default.
Outside of Eastern Europe? Nobody knows what it is. You send an FB2 file to someone in the US, they try to open it, and their computer says "what is this?" It doesn't work on Kindles. It doesn't work on Kobo. It barely works on phones without a special app. It's a format that's stuck in a geographical bubble.
So you need PDF. PDF is the common language of documents. You can print it. You can email it to your professor. You can put it on a USB drive and it'll open on your grandma's Windows 7 machine. And the formatting? FB2 is actually really clean XML, so converting it to PDF preserves everything: the chapter breaks, the footnotes, the epigraphs, the poems formatted as poems. Even Cyrillic characters – I made sure the PDF embeds proper Cyrillic fonts so your Dostoevsky doesn't show up as boxes and gibberish.
30MB limit. That's a 1000-page novel in FB2 format. If you've got the complete works of Tolstoy in one file, it might be too big. But for 99% of books, you're fine. No sign-up, no watermarks, no "premium" nonsense. Upload, convert, download, gone. That's how it should be.
FB2 to PDF – Questions I Answer Every Week
Yes. I embedded proper Cyrillic fonts in the PDF renderer. Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian – all the Cyrillic alphabets work. No boxes, no weird characters, just proper text.
Yep. FB2 has excellent footnote support, and I keep them as clickable links in the PDF. They're formatted properly at the bottom of the page or as endnotes depending on your reader settings.
Poetry is preserved with proper line breaks and indentation. Drama with character names and stage directions – all that stays intact. FB2 is good at semantic markup, and I keep those semantics in the PDF.
Sure. Just change the output format to MOBI in the settings. But if you have a newer Kindle, EPUB works better – Amazon accepts EPUB now. PDF is for printing or universal sharing.