Word to PDF

A .docx is a zip full of XML, and that is why this converter can run free and online without your document going anywhere. The pictures inside are already PNG and JPEG files, so they are lifted out and placed in the PDF byte for byte — nothing is re-compressed and no quality is lost. Charts are better still: Word stores a chart as the numbers plus how to draw them, so the chart is redrawn in the PDF rather than screenshotted, which means it stays sharp at any zoom and matches the figures exactly. What this does not do is reproduce Word's typesetting to the pixel. Line breaks and fonts are re-set, so the result reads correctly and will not be identical.

How to use it

1. Add your .docx. Nothing is uploaded — it is opened in your browser.
2. Text, headings, lists and tables are laid out on a page the same size as the one Word was using.
3. Pictures are copied out unchanged and placed where they appear in the text, not collected at the end.
4. Charts are drawn from the data Word keeps alongside them.
5. Download the PDF. You are told how many pictures and charts came through.

Examples

• A report with photographs and a bar chart, turned into a PDF for emailing
• A CV converted so the layout cannot shift on someone else's computer

What this tool cannot do

• This is a re-layout, not a photocopy. Your document is read and set again in the PDF's own standard typefaces, so a file in an unusual font will read correctly and look different.
• Complex layouts drift. Text boxes, columns and tightly-positioned images are approximations of the original, not reproductions of it.
• For a pixel-perfect result, export to PDF from Word itself. That is not modesty — it is the only way to get the exact page Word would print.

Frequently asked questions

Are my pictures kept?

Yes, and they are not touched on the way through. The pictures in a Word file are already stored as PNG or JPEG inside it, so they are extracted and placed into the PDF exactly as they were — no decoding, no re-compression, no quality loss. They also stay where they belong in the text rather than being gathered up and dumped at the end, which is what a lot of converters mean when they say images are supported.

What happens to charts?

They are redrawn, and that is better than it sounds. A chart in Word is not a picture — it is the numbers plus a description of how to plot them. So we read the numbers and draw the chart again in the PDF as proper vector graphics: bars, lines, pie slices, axes and a legend. It stays sharp however far you zoom in, and the bars match the data because they came from the data. If a chart uses a type we do not draw, the PDF says so in its place rather than leaving a silent gap.

Will it look exactly like Word?

No, and anything that promises otherwise is either embedding Word or overstating. Word's line breaking, hyphenation and spacing are a large piece of proprietary typesetting, so a converter that runs in your browser is approximating them. What is exact: the page size and margins, the text itself, the table structure, and every picture. What is approximate: where lines break, and the fonts — text is set in the standard PDF families, so an unusual typeface will read correctly and look different.

Can it open a .doc file?

No. The older .doc format is a completely different, binary one, and it is not something a browser can read. The fix takes a moment: open the file in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs and save it again as .docx. The tool tells you plainly when you have given it an old file rather than failing in some confusing way further along.

Is my document uploaded?

No. The file is opened, read and converted entirely in your browser, on your own device, and no part of it is sent to us or anyone else. Load the page, disconnect from the internet, and it still works. This matters for the documents people usually convert — contracts, applications, CVs — which are exactly the ones you would not want sitting on somebody else's server.