Plutext Word to PDF Converter

Plutext's Word to PDF Converter is a on-premises server/service you can use in your application to programmatically convert or export Microsoft Word doc/docx files to PDF.

Please note: This product has been discontinued and is no longer available for purchase.

Highlights:

aims to mimic Word's layout (high fidelity)
uses suitable fonts
produces PDF/A-2b compliant output (if set to do so)
is simple to install (especially compared to SharePoint, LibreOffice etc)
is fast (and multithreaded)
is frugal with resources
is secure (strict separation of conversion jobs)
runs as an operating system service (or via Docker).

To try your docx now, please click here

News

5 August 2019: 2.2-16 releases for Windows and Linux available (if no italics font face, simulate with skew)
2 July 2019: 2.2-15 release for Linux available (table cell character wrapping regression; line break improvement)
21 May 2019: 2.2-13 releases for Windows and Linux available
16 May 2019: 2.2-12 releases for Windows and Linux available
18 April 2019: 2.2-11 release for Linux available (supports doNotExpandShiftReturn)
29 Oct 2018: 2.2-8 releases for Docker now available
25 Oct 2018: 2.2-8 release for Linux and Windows available (external hyperlink support)
6 Oct 2018: 2.2-4 releases for Docker and Linux available
29 Sept 2018: 2.2-3 release for Windows (fixes pfont.c issue with exotic fonts)
17 Sept 2018: 2.2-1 releases for Windows, Linux and Docker available
14 Sept 2018: Windows 2.2.0 release available (complex scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew; various layout enhancements)
28 June 2018: Linux 2.1-2 releases available (fixes a numbering edge case)
18 June 2018: Windows 2.1-1 releases available (support long documents by optimizing OS-specific resource allocations)

Server download

Getting Started

To test your installation, please see Getting Started

Client libraries

You convert a Word document by HTTP POSTing it to the server.

For example: