How-to
How to convert HWPX to PDF
You need an HWPX file as a PDF, to print it, attach it to an email or just read it. Word refuses to open it, and every converter you find wants you to upload the file first.
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Convert HWPX to PDF
Turn open-format HWPX documents into PDF. No Hancom Office, no upload.
No upload
HWP or HWPX file to convert
Converted inside this browser, without Hancom Office. Your file is never uploaded.
- Instead of sending your document to a server, the document engine is downloaded to your browser. Confidential documents never leave your device.
- Tables, pictures, shapes, headers, footers and page numbers all carry over. Text stays real text, so you can still select and search it in the PDF.
- Text is drawn with the bundled Nanum Gothic and Nanum Myeongjo (Noto Sans KR for Hanja and Kana). The original fonts are not embedded, but every glyph keeps the position the engine computed, so lines and pages do not shift.
How to convert HWPX to PDF
- 1
Pick your HWPX file
Older HWP files are handled on the same screen.
- 2
Press convert
The engine and fonts are downloaded once, then reused.
- 3
Download the PDF
You get the page count, plus a note if anything could not be carried over.
When to keep a PDF alongside the HWPX
Submit HWPX, circulate PDF
Korean public bodies increasingly ask for HWPX, the open XML format. Documents that travel outside the office are still safer as PDF: they open without Hancom Office and they open the same way everywhere.
This tool reads the OWPML inside the HWPX directly, lays the document out page by page, and writes those pages into a PDF: the same work Hancom Office does in "Save as", done in your browser.
What carries over, what changes
Tables, pictures, shapes, gradients, headers, footers and page numbers carry over, and text is written as text so it can be selected and searched.
Fonts are swapped for redistributable ones: Nanum Gothic and Nanum Myeongjo, with Noto Sans KR for Hanja and Kana. Glyph positions come from the engine, so lines and pages do not move. Symbols that live only inside Hancom fonts are left out, and the result says how many.
Not uploading the file
The moment a document is uploaded to a conversion site it has passed through someone else’s server. For official documents that alone can be a problem. Here the engine comes to the document instead. After the first run, conversion even works with the network off.
Frequently asked questions
Does it handle plain HWP?+
Yes, HWP 5.0 files work on the same screen.
What about password protected HWPX?+
Drop the file, enter the password when the box appears, and run it again.
Do tables shift?+
Page breaks and cell sizes are recomputed with the same rules Hancom uses before anything is drawn, so the layout holds.
Why is the first run slow?+
It downloads an 8MB document engine and the Korean fonts. That is the cost of not sending your file anywhere, and it only happens once.
Is there a watermark?+
No.
This product was developed with reference to the HWP document file (.hwp) specification published by Hancom.