How is line wrapping handled?

Plain text (.txt) is the simplest file format that exists: a sequence of characters with optional line breaks, no formatting, no metadata, no embedded media. README files in source repositories, code listings from terminals, chat transcripts, log file excerpts, and quick notes from any text editor land in .txt. Converting to JPG turns a wall of text into a shareable image, useful when you want to drop a snippet into Slack, embed a code sample in a blog post, or preserve a configuration file as evidence without recipients downloading anything.

jpg.now renders .txt by laying out the content in a monospace font (DejaVu Sans Mono by default, the de facto standard for code), wrapping at a configurable column width (default 80, the venerable terminal default), and outputting a JPG sized to fit the longest line and total height. UTF-8 is the assumed encoding; ASCII and Latin-1 also work without modification. For larger files, the output paginates so each JPG stays under a reasonable pixel count and remains crisp on retina displays.

Common scenarios include developers sharing log excerpts in bug reports, writers grabbing snippets of source for inline blog illustration, sysadmins capturing config-file diffs for handover docs, and educators creating slide assets from code samples. For a portable bundle of long files, post-process with /jpg-to-pdf. To shrink the image for email, route through /compress-jpg. To get text back out, run /image-to-text for OCR.

Reasons to convert TXT to JPG usually come down to compatibility, file-size, or specific feature requirements. Common situations:

• An app or platform only accepts JPG uploads.
• You need a feature unique to JPG (e.g. transparency, vector scaling, animation, multi-page pages, etc.) that TXT doesn't provide.
• You're optimising file size — modern formats often produce smaller files than the older format you started with.
• You need a single archival format across a project so files behave consistently in the same viewer.

1. Open the TXT → JPG tool on jpg.now.
2. Drag your TXT file onto the drop zone, or click Select files. You can drop a whole folder of files at once.
3. The output is fixed to JPG. If the format supports extra options (page size, transparency background, quality, EXIF stripping), tweak them in the right-hand panel.
4. Click Convert. The job runs on our server and finishes in a few seconds for typical photos.
5. Download the result. Files stay in storage for 24 hours and are then permanently deleted.

The entire flow is free for the first 10 jobs per day with no signup required. A free account doubles that quota; a premium plan removes the limit entirely.

• Save the source as UTF-8 without BOM for the widest compatibility across editors and operating systems.
• Normalise line endings to LF if mixing Windows and Unix sources - mixed endings can produce unexpected wraps.
• Tabs render as four spaces by default; if your code uses two-space indentation, preview before sharing.
• Cap line length around 80-100 characters; longer lines wrap and disrupt visual scanning.
• For colour syntax highlighting, render to HTML with a highlighter first, then use /html-to-jpg.