A document that arrives the way you wrote it
You've finished a cover letter, the minutes of a club meeting or a party invitation, and it has to go out today. Send it as a Word file and you can't tell how it will open on the other side – on a phone, in an older program, or without the fonts you picked. Lines slide onto the next page and tables fall apart. A PDF shows the same layout on every screen and can't be changed by accident.
What you can upload
Word to PDF accepts five formats: DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF and TXT. One document is converted at a time, and it can be up to 95 MB. The PDF keeps the name of your document. Files are checked on arrival, so a picture renamed to .docx is rejected.
What carries over
The conversion is done by LibreOffice, an open-source office suite, so your file is opened by a real word processor. Margins, headers, footers and page numbers stay in place, along with tables, images, charts, shapes, headings, lists and footnotes. Links remain clickable, and accented and Cyrillic letters come through intact. The one thing to watch is unusual fonts: a font the server doesn't have is swapped for the closest match, which can move a line break here and there.
Where the work happens
Unlike the tools that run in your browser, this one sends the document to our server. It is placed in a temporary folder created for that single conversion, and the folder – your document and the finished PDF included – is deleted as soon as processing ends.
Next steps
Sending certificates too? Combine everything with Merge PDF. Add a password with Protect PDF, or shrink a large file with Compress PDF.