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title: "Rich Text Converter"
slug: "rich-text-converter"
description: "Information about the Rich Text Converter engine."
updated: 2026-04-13T15:20:13Z
published: 2026-04-13T15:20:13Z
canonical: "kb.lasernetgroup.com/rich-text-converter"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.lasernetgroup.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rich Text Converter

**Applies to:** Lasernet Core 11

Select **PDF** as the output format to convert a DOCX document to a PDF or PDF/A compliant document.

![The Setup tab for the Rich Text Converter engine with PDF output format selected.](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/rich-text-converter-image-tgpv47z9.png)

Select **DOCX** to add additional phrases to a DOCX document.

![The Setup tab for the Rich Text Converter engine with DOCX output format selected.](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/rich-text-converter-image-pztmxii6.png)

## PDF

The Rich Text Converter Engine only guarantees to successfully convert documents created in DOCX format by the Lasernet Form Editor.

![A DOCX sheet.](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/rich-text-converter-image-rwshv857.png)

> [!WARNING]
> Warning
> 
> Lasernet Core cannot guarantee that all element types included in the DOCX format, in documents created by Microsoft Word or other 3rd party applications, are successfully converted to PDF. The use of this module under these circumstances is considered experimental.

### PDF/A Compliant

PDF/A is a PDF format typically used for the long-term archiving of electronic documents and is based on PDF reference version 1.4. Fonts and color profiles will be embedded in the PDF file.

### Multi Language Support

By default, the PDF format includes 7-bit ASCII characters only. Multi language support allows embedding additional characters and fonts.

### Embed Fonts

Determines what fonts are embedded in the PDF file. Font embedding is used to ensure correct output on other client computers.

### Title, Author, Subject and Keywords

Descriptions to be included in the document properties of the PDF-file.

### Image Compression

Three options are available for compressing images, including the JPEG quality value (default 80%):

| **Automatic** | Prefers indexed and uses JPEG if image contains more than 256 colors. |
| --- | --- |
| **Indexed** | Creates indexed images (using a palette) if image contains no more than 256 colors. Otherwise store as bitmap. The setting will give the best image quality but the file size may increase. |
| **JPEG** | Compresses all images using JPEG. The setting will compromise image quality for smaller file size. |

## DOCX

The **DOCX** format is used to add additional phrases, created in Lasernet Phrase Editor, to a DOCX document created by the Lasernet Form Editor. From Microsoft Word a DOCVARIABLE + the name of the phrase is required as a part of the document.

> [!WARNING]
> Warning
> 
> Lasernet Core cannot guarantee that all element types included in the DOCX format, in documents created by Microsoft Word or other 3rd party applications, are successfully converted to PDF. The use of this module under these circumstances is considered experimental.

## Combining

You can merge multiple DOCX files into a single DOCX or PDF document by activating the combining feature in the module settings, but it is an experimental feature. Combining multiple documents that contain complex formatting like headers, footers, indexing, page numbering, and so on, may not always be merged as expected.