Convert Word to PDF

Need a PDF of a Word document on a computer without Office, or without sending a confidential file to a website? The .docx is read in your browser with mammoth, an open-source converter that understands Word's structure: headings, paragraphs, bold and italic text, bulleted and numbered lists, tables and embedded pictures. The document is then laid out on A4 or Letter pages with real, selectable text.

This is a clean re-layout, not a copy of Word's rendering. Page breaks, columns, text boxes, headers and footers, exact fonts, colours and spacing are not reproduced, so a heavily designed document will look different. For letters, reports, CVs and notes it gives a tidy, readable PDF; for a pixel-perfect copy, use "Save as PDF" in Word itself.

Text uses Carlito, a Calibri-compatible font, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, and IBM Plex Sans Arabic for Arabic: letters are joined, lines run right to left, and Arabic paragraphs, lists and tables are aligned to the right, with English words and numbers inside them in the right order. Characters neither font has, such as Chinese or emoji, are reported rather than silently dropped.