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Free Online PDF Border Adder, Draw a Frame Around Every Page

Put a frame around the pages of a PDF. Choose a single line, a double line, a thick and thin pair, a dashed rule or corner marks, set the colour, the thickness and how far in from the edge it sits, and only the pages you name are changed. Nothing underneath is re-encoded.

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Free Online PDF Border Adder, Draw a Frame Around Every Page
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Draw a border Drag and drop a PDF. A frame is drawn around every page in the colour, thickness and style you choose, inside your browser. Select a PDF File Up to 200 MB • 3,000 pages • nothing is uploaded
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How to Put a Border on a PDF

Four steps, and the file never leaves your computer.

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Step 1

Drop the PDF in. Nothing is uploaded; it is read where it already is.

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Step 2

Pick a style, a colour and a thickness for the frame.

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Step 3

Set how far in from the edge it should sit, and which pages get one.

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Step 4

Press Draw the border and download the new file.

What It Does, and What It Cannot Do

Where to place a border so a printer does not eat it.

Keep the border at least five millimetres from the edge, and ten is safer. Ordinary printers cannot print right up to the paper edge, so a frame drawn too close comes out with a side missing. The default here allows for that.
The border is drawn on top of the page. If your content already runs to the edge, a border will sit over it. Adding a margin first, with our Margin Adder, gives the frame somewhere of its own to live.
Thickness is in points, the same unit a word processor uses. One point is a normal rule, two is a firm frame, and anything above four starts to look like a certificate. That is sometimes exactly what you want.
Corner marks are not decoration. They are what a printer or a trimmer looks for, and they leave the middle of each edge clear. Choose them when the page is going to be cut rather than framed.

Key Features & Capabilities

Designed for speed, privacy, and precision.

Never uploaded

The frame is drawn in your browser, so a certificate or a client proof never leaves your computer.

Five styles

One line, two lines, a thick line with a thin one inside, a dashed line, or corner marks for trimming.

Any colour

Pick the exact colour rather than settling for black, which matters when the frame has to match a brand.

Placed where you want

Distance from the edge in millimetres, so the frame clears whatever your printer cannot reach.

Nothing re-encoded

The frame is drawn as lines onto the existing page. The document underneath is untouched and stays exactly as sharp.

Only some pages

Frame the whole document or a selection, written as 1, 4, 7-9, odd or even. Covers often want one and the rest do not.

About the PDF Border Adder

This tool draws a frame around the pages of a PDF. A single rule for a report, two lines for something formal, a thick and thin pair for a certificate, a dashed line for a form, or corner marks for a page that is going to be trimmed.

The measurement that matters is how far in from the edge the frame sits. Ordinary printers cannot print to the edge of the paper, and a border drawn a couple of millimetres in is the classic way to discover that: three sides print and the fourth vanishes. The default here keeps clear of it, and the number is yours to change when you know your own machine.

The frame is drawn onto the existing page rather than the page being rebuilt. Nothing underneath is re-encoded, so the text stays text, the images keep their quality and the file grows by almost nothing.

Everything happens in your browser. There is no upload and no account, which is what you want for the certificates, proofs and signed documents that usually need a frame.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frames, colours, thickness and printing.

Drop the file onto this page, choose the style, colour and thickness, and press Draw the border. A frame is drawn around every page you chose and the result downloads as a new PDF. Nothing is uploaded.

Because it sits inside the strip your printer cannot reach. Almost every home printer loses about ten millimetres at the edge. Move the border further in and print again.

Yes. Write 1 in the pages box, or first. Only that page is framed and everything else is copied through untouched.

It is drawn on top of the page, so it will sit over anything in its path. If the content reaches the edge, add a margin first with our Margin Adder and then draw the frame in the space that creates.

One point is an ordinary rule and suits documents. Two to three points reads as a deliberate frame. Above four points it starts to look ceremonial, which is right for a certificate and wrong for a report.

No. The border is drawn and the new file is written entirely inside your browser, which you can prove by disconnecting from the internet and using the page anyway.

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