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How to convert Word to PDF
- Drop the Word file.
- Nothing to choose.
- Press Convert and download the PDF.
What happens to your file
The document is laid out by a full office engine — the same rendering LibreOffice does — and printed to PDF with fonts embedded, so it looks the same on every device.
Headings become PDF bookmarks, hyperlinks stay clickable, and tracked changes are shown as Word would show them for the document’s current view.
Fonts not installed on the server are substituted with metric-compatible ones; the layout holds, the letterforms can differ slightly.
Questions
Will the layout change?
Pagination matches Word for the overwhelming majority of documents. Documents relying on unusual fonts or complex floating objects can shift by a line.
Is the PDF editable?
Text is selectable and searchable. For editing, keep the DOCX.
Are comments included?
Not in the PDF. Accept or remove them first if they matter.
Do it once, not on every form
Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
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Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "convert",
"options": {}
}'The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.