Word to PDF converter

Open a Word document (.docx), check the preview, and download a PDF with real, selectable text: headings, lists, tables, links, footnotes and images are kept. Free, no signup, no watermark.

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Font
Page size
Margins
Orientation

Page numbers Table borders

Open a .docx file to start.

Preview

What is kept, what is simplified

In your Word file	In the PDF
Text, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links	Kept, as real selectable text
Headings, title, lists, tables, footnotes	Kept
Images and photos	Kept Large photos are scaled to 1400 px wide to keep the file light.
Exact page layout: columns, text boxes, headers and footers, cell colors, text alignment	Simplified The content flows onto clean pages instead.

This converter reads the structure of the document (what is a heading, a list, a table), not Word's page layout. That makes it a good fit for reports, letters, essays, CVs with a simple layout, meeting notes and documentation, and a poor one for brochures or forms where every element has a fixed position. For those, use File → Save as → PDF in Word or LibreOffice, which reproduce the exact layout.

Fonts

Pick the font closest to your document's. Word's default fonts, Calibri and Cambria, are printed with Carlito and Caladea, which have exactly the same letter widths, so text takes up the same space as in Word. Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean text prints correctly, since the PDF is rendered by Chromium with Noto fonts.

Convert Word files to PDF from code

Need to turn uploaded or generated .docx files into PDFs on a server, without installing LibreOffice? Convert the file to HTML with mammoth (npm i mammoth) and send it to the Shotmint PDF API. Save this as docx2pdf.mjs and run SHOTMINT_KEY=... node docx2pdf.mjs report.docx:

// docx2pdf.mjs: node docx2pdf.mjs report.docx  ->  report.pdf
import mammoth from 'mammoth';
import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';

const input = process.argv[2] ?? 'report.docx';
const { value: body } = await mammoth.convertToHtml({ path: input });
const html = `<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
  body { font: 11pt/1.35 Carlito, Calibri, sans-serif }
  table { border-collapse: collapse } td, th { border: 1px solid #999; padding: 3pt 6pt }
  img { max-width: 100% }
</style>${body}`;

const res = await fetch('https://shotmint.creasework.com/v1/pdf', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'X-API-Key': process.env.SHOTMINT_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ html, format: 'A4', margin: '25mm', page_numbers: true }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
await writeFile(input.replace(/\.docx$/i, '') + '.pdf', Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer()));
console.log('Saved, credits left:', res.headers.get('x-credits-remaining'));

Images in the document are embedded in the HTML as data URIs, so they need no hosting. Options: format (A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5, Tabloid), landscape, margin, page_numbers, header_template and footer_template. Each PDF is 1 credit, and the HTML can be up to 2 MB.

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FAQ

Is my document uploaded? The .docx is read in your browser and never uploaded. Only the converted HTML is sent once to render the PDF, and it is not stored. The preview never leaves your browser.

Does it work with .doc files? No, only .docx (Word 2007 and later). Open an old .doc in Word or LibreOffice and save it as .docx first.

Is the text selectable in the PDF? Yes. It is real text, so you can search and copy it (check with PDF to text).

Some images are missing. Old Windows vector images (EMF/WMF) can't be shown by a browser, so they are left out; the note under the button says how many. Replace them with PNGs in Word to keep them.

Is there a limit? 5 PDFs a day per visitor without a key. Get a free API key for 25 more a month, or buy credits for bulk conversions.

Word to PDF converter

What is kept, what is simplified

Fonts

Convert Word files to PDF from code

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