When rendering must be faithful — complex layouts, spreadsheets, presentations — this conversion uses a complete engine on our server. It is one of the seven functions involving external processing, and Plicum tells you beforehand.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the equivalent open formats.
Before running, the interface states that the file will pass through our server.
The file is processed and deleted when the operation ends.
The file is sent to our service (Frankfurt, EU), processed and deleted when done. It is stated in the tool before you press Run.
Because faithful rendering of Office formats requires a complete layout engine, which the browser does not have. It is a declared trade-off: you gain fidelity, and in exchange the file leaves your device. If the document is confidential, Word → PDF works locally.
It is sent to our service (Frankfurt, EU), processed and deleted when finished. This is stated in the tool before you press Run.
Yes, for Word documents: the Word → PDF tool converts in the browser, on your device. Rendering is excellent on text documents and less faithful on heavily designed layouts.
It opens in your browser, nothing to install. Five operations a day are free, with no payment details.