Word to PDF Converter
Turn a Word .docx or .doc document into a PDF. The file is converted on this server by a real word processor rather than by a web approximation, so fonts, margins, spacing, tables, images, headers, footers, and page breaks are kept as close to your original as the engine can manage. Most everyday documents come out looking the way you designed them.
Choose a document
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Choose a Word document to begin.
PDF preview
Your converted PDF appears here.
Conversion note: the PDF is produced by LibreOffice running on this server, rather than by a web approximation. The document is not reformatted or re-styled on its way to the page. Two limits are worth knowing about. First, pagination is close but not guaranteed to be identical: a document with unusual fonts, complex tables, or a very large number of pages can come out with slightly different page breaks, so check the result if exact pagination matters to you. Second, if a document uses a font that is not installed here, a similar one is substituted. Tracked changes and comments are printed in their final state and do not appear as markup. The conversion runs as a background job, so this page stays usable while it works. Your uploaded document is deleted from the server as soon as the conversion finishes, which is normally before your download starts, and the generated PDF is deleted as soon as the download is delivered, or within 45 minutes if you never collect it.
How to use the converter
1. Select a document
Choose a .docx or .doc file up to 20 MB. The file is uploaded to this server over your connection.
2. Convert to PDF
Select Convert to PDF. The document is opened and exported on the server, and the page tells you which engine did the work. Very long documents take a while, and the page keeps counting.
3. Check and save
The PDF is shown in the preview and saved to your device. Use Download PDF to save another copy, then select Clear to remove it from this page.
This one does send your document to the server
Every other file tool on this site reads your file in the browser and never sends it anywhere. This one is different, and it is worth being clear about why. A Word document is not a page, it is a compressed package of XML describing paragraphs, styles, margins and relationships, and turning that into a PDF that matches what Word would have printed means reproducing a full layout engine. Browsers cannot do that without a document library several times the size of the whole file, so the conversion is done on this site’s own server.
The document is uploaded over an encrypted connection, converted, and both the uploaded file and the generated PDF are deleted from the server as soon as the download has been delivered. The Privacy Policy says the same thing in the section on documents.
What survives the conversion and what does not
Text, tables, images and ordinary formatting come across well. The things that move are the ones Word resolves against fonts and printer settings that a web server does not have:
- A font the server does not have is replaced with something similar, and the line breaks can change with it. Embedding fonts before you convert avoids this.
- Headers, footers, page numbers and section breaks usually hold up, but check the page count against the original.
- Comments and tracked changes may not appear in the output at all, depending on how the document was set up.
- Text boxes, floating shapes and equations are the most likely things to shift.
Page size
Word documents carry a page size, usually A4 or Letter depending on where they were written. The conversion keeps whichever the document specifies, which is occasionally not the one you want. If the result looks wrong at the edges, check the page setup in Word before converting rather than after.
There is an upload limit
The server refuses anything over its configured limit and says so rather than failing quietly. If your document is rejected, that is the reason, and the practical answer is to save a smaller or simpler copy.
Convert a copy and keep the original
Work on a duplicate. The document you upload is the one that gets converted, and the result is a new file rather than an edited one, so a failed conversion is harmless but a lost original is not.
Check the PDF against the original
Page through it once before you send it. One minute comparing the conversion against what you expected catches the missing page, the substituted font and the shifted table that nobody would otherwise notice until the recipient did.
If you only need a PDF, you may not need this
Printing to PDF from Word, or from the browser’s own print dialogue, produces a PDF without sending the file anywhere. It gives you less control over the result, and it is the better answer when the document is straightforward and you have the original application open.