DOT to JPG Converter

What happens when you convert DOT to JPG

• The DOT is opened by LibreOffice, the open-source office suite, on our conversion server, laid out exactly as it would print, and each page is then drawn as an image by MuPDF at 150 dpi, the resolution most documents are printed at.
• A one-page DOT gives a single JPG; a longer one comes back as a ZIP file with one JPG per page, named page-01.jpg, page-02.jpg and so on, for up to 100 pages.
• At 150 dpi, an A4 page becomes about 1240 by 1750 pixels. The longest side is capped at 6,000 pixels.
• The JPG files are saved at 92 percent quality, which keeps text readable while staying far smaller than PNG.
• A template opens as a new document based on it, so the result shows the template's own text, styles and page layout.
• Text, fonts, images, tables, headers and footers appear exactly where they sit on the page.
• Where the file uses a font our server does not have, a metric-compatible one is used instead: Carlito for Calibri, Caladea for Cambria and Liberation fonts for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, so lines break where they did. Unusual or decorative fonts may look different.
• This conversion runs on our server: the file is uploaded, converted, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result has been sent back to you. Nothing is kept. Files up to 25 MB are accepted.

How to convert DOT to JPG online

1. Press "Choose DOT files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. Files up to 25 MB each can be converted.
2. There are no settings to choose: the converter keeps everything the target format can hold.
3. Press "Convert to JPG". The file is uploaded to our conversion server, converted in a few seconds, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result is sent back.
4. Save each JPG with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your DOT and the JPG by then.

Why convert DOT to JPG?

DOT files usually come from letterheads, forms and company templates from older versions of Word. People convert them to JPG to share a page as a picture: in a chat or a social post, on a website, in a presentation, or in an upload form that only accepts images. JPG opens on every phone and computer without an office program.

How to convert DOT to JPG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your DOT files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each JPG is saved to your Downloads folder.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the DOT files from Finder onto the drop zone and the JPG files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose DOT files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted JPG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose DOT files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The JPG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for DOT to JPG

There are no settings: every page is rendered at 150 dpi, the longest side is capped at 6,000 pixels, and at most the first 100 pages are converted.

To get one page only, save just that page as its own file first, or pick the image you want out of the ZIP. For a document you will print or send, PDF keeps the text sharp at any size and selectable.

DOT vs JPG: the differences

About DOT and JPG files

What is a DOT file?

A DOT file is a template: opening it in Word starts a new, untitled document with its styles, text and layout, and leaves the template itself untouched. Normal.dot held the defaults for every new document until Word 2007.

What is a JPG file?

JPG discards fine detail the eye is least sensitive to, which is why a photo shrinks to a tenth of its raw size but text and sharp edges pick up blocky artefacts. Every re-save at a lossy setting throws away a little more.

DOT to JPG not working? Common problems

• "Files up to 25 MB can be converted." Server conversions have a size limit. Compress the images inside the file, or split it, and try again.
• "The conversion took too long and was stopped." Very long or complex files can pass the 90 second limit. Split the file and convert the parts.
• The file will not convert. It may be password protected, damaged, or saved in a newer or unusual version of the format.

Convert DOT to JPG from the command line

LibreOffice and Poppler do the same on your own computer: the first command makes a PDF, the second writes one image per page.

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf input.dot
pdftoppm -r 150 -jpeg -jpegopt quality=92 input.pdf page

Converting on your own computer keeps the file entirely local, which is worth it for very large or very sensitive documents. For everything else, the converter on this page does it without installing anything.