Word to PDF, free
Make a PDF from a .docx document without Word — with headings, lists, tables and pictures. The file stays in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Drop the .docx here, or choose a file
The document stays in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
You can drop several documents at once — up to ten — and download the finished PDFs in one ZIP.
When this is the right tool, and when it is not
If you have Word, "Save as → PDF" is the best converter there is: the program that wrote the document does the typesetting. This page is for when Word is not at hand — you received a .docx on your phone, you are on a borrowed machine, or you simply do not want to upload a CV or a contract to a stranger's server just to turn it into a PDF. Here the document stays in your browser, and the PDF is made there too.
The engine is three open-source libraries: mammoth reads the Word format (it is also what renders the .docx preview on FileMv's shared files), our own typesetter does the layout, and pdf-lib writes the PDF. The typeface is Noto Sans, which Google publishes free for every language — on the first run your browser downloads the faces the document needs (regular, bold, italic), roughly 0.6 MB each.
What survives, and what does not
Kept: the page size and margins, paragraphs and three levels of headings, bold, italic and underlined runs, bullet and numbered lists (indented, with continuing numbers), tables (equal column widths, thin borders), pictures at their set size, links underlined, superscripts and subscripts, and every manual page break.
Not kept: the original typeface — everything is set in Noto Sans, because a browser has no access to the fonts on your machine, and a PDF must embed its font to look the same everywhere. It follows that lines break in different places and the page count may differ. Headers and footers, footnote text, text boxes, floating (text-wrapped) pictures, colours and highlights, and multi-column sections do not come through either. That is what "layout-approximate" means.
.docx only — not the old .doc
.docx has been Word's format since 2007: a ZIP of XML files, which a browser can process. The old .doc is a binary format from the nineties with no reader that runs in a browser. If that is what you have, open it in Word or LibreOffice and save it as .docx — then it can be dropped here. .odt and .rtf are one save away in the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Will it look the same as in Word?
Not exactly. The text, the structure, the lists, the tables and the pictures come through, but in a different typeface and therefore with different line breaks — a ten-page document may come out as nine or eleven. Fine for reading, forwarding and printing; for a print-ready publication, use Word's own PDF export.
Do Hungarian accents survive?
Yes, including the two double-acute vowels only Hungarian uses. That is not a given: many browser-based PDF writers use the PDF's built-in Helvetica, which lacks those two letters and turns them into question marks. We embed Noto Sans, whose coverage of the full Hungarian alphabet we verified.
Why is a picture missing from the PDF?
Word's old clipboard pictures are EMF or WMF, which a browser cannot display, so they are skipped and their count is shown under the result. PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP and WebP pictures come through. If a picture matters, save it again as PNG in Word and reinsert it.
Will the text be searchable in the PDF?
Yes. We write real text with an embedded font, not an image — the PDF reader's search, selection and copying all work, and screen readers read it aloud.
How long does it take?
A ten-page document is done in under a second on a laptop; the first run adds the font download. Picture sizes matter most — a thesis full of photos takes several seconds.