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Word to PDF

Turn a .docx into a PDF without sending it anywhere. Every other converter uploads your contract, CV or letter to a server — this one opens it on your own device and never transmits a byte.

Drop a Word document

or click to browse — .docx

A Word document page beside the same page as a PDF, with DOCX and PDF badges
Your .docx, laid out and saved as a PDF — without leaving your device

Why convert Word to PDF here?

Never uploaded

Contracts, CVs, medical letters — the documents you convert are the ones you'd least want on someone else's server. This one reads yours locally.

Real text, not pictures

The PDF keeps selectable, searchable text — so it stays small, copyable and readable by a screen reader.

Preview first

You see the laid-out pages before you save, so nothing about the result is a surprise.

What actually happens when a .docx becomes a PDF

Fonts are the reason no two conversions match

A Word file does not contain its fonts. It contains their names. When the document says Calibri, it is making a request of whatever machine opens it, and Calibri ships with Microsoft Office rather than with operating systems — so a Mac or a Linux box, and most web browsers on them, do not have it.

The substitute is never metrically identical. Characters are a fraction wider or narrower, so the point at which a line wraps moves, and once one line moves every line after it moves too. Two pages can become three. This is not a defect in a particular converter; it is what happens whenever a document is laid out somewhere other than where it was written, and it is why the preview here is shown before the save rather than after.

If you need a PDF that is guaranteed identical to what you see in Word, the only reliable route is to export it from Word itself, on the machine that has the fonts. Everything else — this tool, LibreOffice, an online converter — is re-laying the document out and hoping the fonts line up.

Why the print dialog, and not a download button

A page cannot write a file to your disk unasked, so every in-browser converter has to choose how the PDF gets made. One option is to photograph each page and wrap the pictures in a PDF. That produces a file where the text is not text: nothing can be selected or searched, a screen reader finds nothing to read, and the size balloons because prose is being stored as pixels.

The other option is the browser's own print engine, which is a real PDF writer with real font embedding and real pagination. It produces selectable text at a fraction of the size. The price is that it opens the print dialog and you pick 'Save as PDF' as the destination. That extra click buys a file that behaves like a document instead of a scan of one.

What converts cleanly and what does not

The reliable cases are the common ones: CVs, cover letters, reports, essays, minutes — anything that is mostly headings and paragraphs, with the occasional list or simple table.

  • Multi-column layouts and text boxes, which depend on precise frame positions.
  • Tracked changes and comments, which are editorial state rather than content and are not rendered.
  • Embedded charts and SmartArt, which are Office-specific drawing objects.
  • Anything relying on a font you own but your browser does not.

Perguntas frequentes

Is this Word to PDF converter free?
Yes — free, unlimited, no sign-up and no watermark. There is no page limit and no file-size cap beyond what your own browser can hold.
Is my document uploaded to a server?
No. The .docx is opened and laid out inside your browser, and the PDF is produced by your browser's own print engine. The document never leaves your device, which is the whole point: the files people convert are contracts, CVs, medical letters and legal paperwork.
Will the PDF look exactly like it does in Word?
It will look very close, but it is not guaranteed to be identical. A .docx names the fonts it uses without embedding them, so if your computer doesn't have the original font — Calibri, for instance, isn't installed on most Macs or Linux machines — the browser substitutes a similar one, the text is re-measured, and line and page breaks can shift. That's why the tool shows you the laid-out pages before you save.
Why do I have to use the print dialog instead of a download button?
Because that's what keeps the text real. Your browser's print engine writes selectable, searchable text into the PDF. The alternative used by some in-browser converters is to take a picture of each page, which gives a large file with no copyable text that a screen reader cannot read. Choose 'Save as PDF' as the destination in the dialog.
Can I convert an old .doc file?
Not directly. The old binary .doc format is a different container that can't be read this way. Open it in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs and save it as .docx first, then convert that.
What about complex documents?
Simple documents — CVs, letters, reports, essays — convert well. Heavily designed ones are where accuracy drops: multi-column newsletters, tracked changes, embedded charts and unusual fonts may not lay out the way Word does. The preview tells you before you commit.

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