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Turn a Word document into a PDF

Convert a .docx into a PDF free, keeping paragraphs, headings and lists. No Word licence, no account, no watermark and no upload of your document.

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A4 outside North America, Letter inside it. The document is re-flowed to fit whichever you pick.

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Headings scale with this, so one setting changes the whole document proportionally.

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72 points is one inch. Wider margins mean fewer words per line and more pages.

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    How it works

    The .docx is opened as the ZIP it is and word/document.xml is read into paragraphs, keeping the heading level from each pStyle and the list flag from each numPr. Every paragraph is then re-typeset: lines are broken by measuring candidate strings against the real font metrics, and a new page starts when the next line would cross the bottom margin. Text outside WinAnsi triggers a real font file to be downloaded and embedded, because the fourteen fonts built into PDF cannot draw Cyrillic or Greek at all.

    What to watch out for

    This re-typesets the document, it does not photograph it

    Word breaks its own lines using the metrics of fonts installed on the machine that opened the file, and those fonts are not inside the .docx — which is why one document paginates differently on two computers. Matching Word page for page is therefore not something any converter can promise. Paragraph order, headings and lists are kept; exact line breaks and page counts will differ.

    Images, tables and columns do not come across

    What is converted is the text of the document with its paragraph structure. Pictures, drawn shapes, table grids, text boxes, footnotes, headers and footers are not drawn. A report that is mostly prose converts well; a poster or a form built out of tables will come out as bare text and is better exported from Word itself.

    Non-Latin text needs a font, and that font is a download

    PDF has fourteen built-in fonts and all of them are limited to WinAnsi, which covers Western European languages and nothing else. A document containing Russian, Greek, Polish or Turkish therefore needs a real font file, which is fetched once and embedded whole — adding roughly 200 KB to that document, and nothing to a Latin one. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew are beyond the bundled font and are refused rather than drawn as empty boxes.

    The older .doc format cannot be opened

    Anything saved before 2007, or deliberately saved as .doc since, is a compound binary file rather than a ZIP of XML. There is no archive to open and no XML to parse, so the tool says so instead of reporting a damaged file. Opening it in Word or LibreOffice and saving as .docx is the only route.

    Limits

    Files up to about 50 MB work reliably. Beyond that, the ceiling is your device's memory rather than any rule we impose — the work happens on your own machine. Tested in Chrome 140, Firefox 143, Safari 18.

    Why this exists

    Sending a .docx to somebody is a small gamble. They may not have Word. Their version may reflow it. The fonts you used may not be on their machine. If they open it on a phone it may not resemble what you wrote at all. And if it is a CV, an assignment or a signed form, they can edit it.

    A PDF removes all of that. It is the format for a document that is finished.

    The usual ways to make one are to own Word, to install an office suite, or to upload the file to a website that promises to delete it later. This is the fourth way: the conversion happens in your browser and the document never travels.

    What is kept, and what is not

    Kept: every paragraph in order, headings at the level Word recorded them, list items with their bullets, blank lines, and the text itself exactly as written.

    Not kept: images, tables, text boxes, footnotes, headers and footers, colours, fonts, and the precise line breaks.

    That division is not arbitrary — it follows what a .docx records as structure against what it records as appearance. A heading is stored as a style name, so it survives. A table is stored as a nested grid of cells whose visual arrangement depends on the renderer, so it does not.

    If your document is mostly prose — an essay, a report, a letter, a chapter, a policy — this converts it faithfully. If it is a poster, a form or a layout built out of tables, export it from Word itself and use the other tools here on the result.

    Why the page count will not match Word

    This is the question people ask, so here is the actual reason.

    A .docx does not contain its fonts. It contains their names. When Word opens the file it looks up those fonts on the machine it is running on, measures the text with whatever it finds, and breaks the lines accordingly. Give the same document to a computer with a different set of fonts installed and the lines fall in different places — this is why a document that was exactly ten pages on your laptop is eleven on a colleague’s.

    So there is no single correct pagination to match. What happens here instead is a clean re-typesetting: text is measured against the font that will actually draw it, lines are broken to the page width you chose, and a new page starts when the next line would cross the margin. The result is a properly set document. It is not a photograph of your screen.

    Languages beyond Western Europe

    PDF ships with fourteen fonts that every reader already has, which is why a converted Latin-script document downloads nothing extra and comes out small. All fourteen are limited to WinAnsi encoding.

    WinAnsi has no Cyrillic. No Greek. No Polish ł, no Turkish ı, no Czech ř. A document containing any of them cannot be drawn with the built-in fonts at all, so a real font file is fetched instead and embedded in the output, which adds about 200 KB to that document.

    That download happens once and only when it is needed, which is why an English document is not made to pay for it.

    Nothing is uploaded

    The document is unpacked and the PDF assembled in a Web Worker in your browser. Dissertations, contracts, references, medical letters and job applications are exactly what people convert to PDF, and exactly what should not be handed to a stranger’s server on the way.

    Your files never leave your browser. Last updated 2026-08-02.