Word to PDF

What this tool does

Turns an Office or HTML document into a PDF: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, RTF, CSV, plain text and HTML are all accepted. The work is done by LibreOffice, which no browser tab can host, so this is one of four tools that use the optional conversion service running on your own computer. The file goes from your browser to a program on your machine and still not to the internet. That also means it only works when you run Dosya Kalemi locally: a public web page is not allowed to reach a service on your computer.

How to use it

1. Make sure the local conversion service is running. The page asks it when the tool opens, and Check again picks it up if you started it afterwards.
2. Drop the document: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, HTML, RTF, CSV or plain text.
3. Run the conversion. LibreOffice opens the file the way it would on screen and saves it as PDF.
4. Download the PDF.

Common questions

Which file types can I convert?

.doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, .ods, .csv, .ppt, .pptx, .odp, .html and .htm. Anything else is refused before it is sent anywhere.

Will the PDF look exactly like the document does in Word?

Usually close, but it is not guaranteed. LibreOffice lays the document out itself, so a font that is not installed on the machine gets substituted and page breaks can shift in heavily formatted files.

The tool says the local service is not running. What now?

This conversion needs LibreOffice, a real program that a browser tab cannot host, so it lives in a small service on your own computer. Opened from the published site, the browser will never find it — pages served over the web are blocked from connecting to your machine. Run Dosya Kalemi locally, start the service in the service folder, then press Check again.