Word to PDF Converter
Need to send a contract, résumé or application that looks exactly the same on the other side? Drop your Word file here and get a PDF in seconds. The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so the document is never uploaded to our server or anyone else’s.
Microsoft fonts are replaced with free fonts that have the same letter widths. If your document uses a rare font, it may look slightly different.
Files are processed right in your browser and never uploaded to a server. Open-source libraries
TL;DR. Pick a Word document up to 30 MB — DOCX, DOC, ODT or RTF — and download the PDF. On a computer the full LibreOffice engine does the work; on phones a simplified mode handles DOCX. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.
How to convert Word to PDF
Choose the document
Drag the file into the box or click “Choose a file”. DOCX, DOC, ODT and RTF up to 30 MB are supported.
Click “Convert”
The first time on a computer, your browser downloads the LibreOffice engine once (about 50 MB). Progress is shown on the button, and “Cancel” stops it at any moment.
Check the preview
The first page of the PDF appears under the button, so you can see that fonts and tables came through.
Download the PDF
Click “Download”. The file keeps the document’s name with a .pdf extension.
Your document is never uploaded
Most online converters upload your file to their server and create the PDF there. For a contract, an invoice or anything with personal details that is an unnecessary risk: a copy of the document ends up with a company you don’t know. There is no server in this chain. The conversion is done by a program running inside your browser tab, and the result is saved straight to your device.
You can check this yourself. Press F12 (Cmd+Option+I on a Mac), open the Network tab and run a conversion. You will only see the converter’s own files from our domain — the engine, fonts and scripts. There is no request carrying your document. On the next conversion the engine comes from the browser cache.
Two modes: full and simplified
The main mode is LibreOffice compiled to run in the browser. It is the same engine as in the desktop office suite: it reads DOCX, legacy DOC, ODT and RTF and keeps tables with merged cells, headers and footers, landscape pages and tables of contents. It needs about 1.5 GB of free memory, so it is used on computers in Chrome, Edge and Firefox and on Android phones with 4 GB of RAM or more.
On iPhone, iPad and low-memory devices a simplified mode takes over. It reads DOCX and lays out the pages itself: headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, images and links are kept. Headers and footers, borders and text wrapping are simplified, and DOC, ODT and RTF can’t be opened in this mode. After converting, the tool tells you which mode was used.
What is preserved
- Text in any Latin or Cyrillic language, including symbols such as №, € and ₽.
- Headings, bold, italic, underline and heading colors.
- Numbered and bulleted lists, including multilevel numbering like 1.1, 1.2.
- Tables with merged cells; long tables continue on the next page.
- Inline images at their original size.
- Page size and orientation, margins and page breaks.
Why the font may look slightly different
Times New Roman, Arial and Calibri belong to Microsoft and can’t be shipped with a website. They are replaced with free fonts that have the same letter widths: Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and Carlito. Lines and pages almost always break exactly as in Word. A rare brand font is replaced with a similar one, and text may move by a line or two. If the layout must match to the millimetre, embed the fonts in Word’s settings or export the PDF from Word itself.
DOCX or PDF: which one to send
| Feature | DOCX (Word) | |
|---|---|---|
| How it looks to the recipient | Depends on their Word version and installed fonts | The same on every device |
| Editing | Easy | Needs special software |
| Printing | Margins and line breaks may shift | Prints exactly as it looks |
| Best for | Drafts and shared editing | Contracts, résumés, invoices, applications |
| Accepted by portals and job sites | Not always | Almost always |
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