Word to PDF Converter
Convert a .docx in this tab. Preview every page before you download. This is not Word's layout engine. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop a .docx file
It stays in this tab.
The file stays in this tab
Most Word to PDF pages are a form in front of a server. You drop a letter, they store it, they convert it, and then they ask for an account before you can have your own file back. This page does not do that. Once the JavaScript has loaded, the document stays in memory here.
Mixpanel and Google Analytics load with the rest of Softery.io. They see that someone opened the tool. They do not get the file name or the bytes. If you came here because a privacy page promised zero third-party scripts, that is not this site, and I will not write that sentence.
Preview every page before you download
The useful part is not the convert button. It is seeing the pages first. Change the paper size or the margin and the preview updates. Those two settings are the only thing this page stores, in this browser. The document itself is not saved.
The download is built from the same layout you are looking at. If a table looks cramped in the preview, it will look cramped in the PDF. That is the point of showing it.
This is not Word's layout engine
A .docx is a zip of XML. This page reads that zip, turns the body into HTML with mammoth 1.11.0, then draws a PDF with the built-in Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts. Calibri becomes Helvetica. A header in the file does not print. A footer does not print. A text box does not print. An explicit page break does.
Word hyphenates. This page wraps whole words. A line can end earlier than it did on your machine, and a paragraph can take more lines. The warning list names those losses instead of hoping you will not notice.
Word's page count and ours
Word sometimes writes a page count into the file when you last saved it. That number is not a promise. It depends on the printer, the fonts on that computer, and the margins Word had open. When the number is there, this page puts it next to the count it actually laid out.
When Word stored nothing, the page says so. It will not invent a match. If the two counts disagree, believe the preview. That is what you are about to download.
Old .doc files are a different format
A file that ends in .doc from Word 97 to 2003 is not a zip. There is no honest browser-only reader for that binary format on this page, and there is no silent upload to a server to fake one. The page names the file and stops.
Save it as .docx from Word or LibreOffice, then drop that file. If you already have a PDF and you need one file from several, that is a different job.
Common questions
Does this page upload my file?
No. The .docx stays in this tab. Mixpanel and Google Analytics load with Softery.io. They see that someone opened the tool. They do not get the file name or the bytes.
Will the PDF look like Word?
No. Word's layout engine is not in this browser. You get headings, lists, tables and a simple page. Headers, footers, text boxes and the fonts Word used will not match. The preview is the PDF. Look at every page before you download.
Can I convert an old .doc file?
No. This page reads .docx only. A .doc from Word 97 to 2003 is a different format. Open it in Word or LibreOffice, save as .docx, then drop that file here.
Is there a daily cap?
No. There is no account and no file-count limit. A huge file can hitch the tab, because the work shares memory with the rest of the page. There is no daily quota.
Two more that also stay in the tab. Merge PDF stitches pages you already have. Markdown to PDF is for a README or notes, not a Word file. I wrote down what the conversion actually does in The Header Did Not Print. All of the free tools work the same way: the useful bit runs here.