diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 0ab6cf1..9279be8 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export(
 	calculate.overlap,
 	get.venn.partitions
 	)
-importFrom("grDevices", "dev.off", "png", "svg", "tiff")
+importFrom("grDevices", "dev.off", "png", "svg", "tiff", "pdf")
 importFrom("stats", "aggregate", "setNames", "phyper")
 importFrom("utils", "capture.output", "combn")
 import(grid,
diff --git a/R/venn.diagram.R b/R/venn.diagram.R
index b31c0a1..4fbba07 100644
--- a/R/venn.diagram.R
+++ b/R/venn.diagram.R
@@ -485,6 +485,14 @@ stop('Invalid size of input object');
    				);
 			}
 		
+		# PDF image type specified
+		else if('pdf' == imagetype) {
+			pdf(
+				file = filename,
+				height = height,
+				width = width
+			);
+		}
 		# Invalid imagetype specified
 		else {
 			flog.error("You have misspelled your 'imagetype', please try again",name="VennDiagramLogger")
diff --git a/man/venn.diagram.Rd b/man/venn.diagram.Rd
index a3fdbd1..bb611e7 100644
--- a/man/venn.diagram.Rd
+++ b/man/venn.diagram.Rd
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ venn.diagram(x, filename, height = 3000, width = 3000, resolution =
   \item{height}{Integer giving the height of the output figure in units}
   \item{width}{Integer giving the width of the output figure in units}
   \item{resolution}{Resolution of the final figure in DPI}
-  \item{imagetype}{Specification of the image format (e.g. tiff, png or svg)}
+  \item{imagetype}{Specification of the image format: tiff, png, svg, pdf}
   \item{units}{Size-units to use for the final figure}
   \item{compression}{What compression algorithm should be applied to the final tiff}
   \item{na}{Missing value handling method: "none", "stop", "remove"}