When a PDF beats a spreadsheet
Price lists, salary sheets, statements of account, timesheets and quotations are often built in Excel but sent to people who only need to read them. A PDF shows the numbers exactly as you formatted them, hides the formulas, and cannot be changed by mistake. Customers can open it on a phone without an app, and portals that reject XLSX files accept it. For anything the other side must edit, send the Excel file; for anything they must read, sign or archive, send a PDF.
Every column on the page
A spreadsheet has no pages until it is printed, and printed as it is, a wide sheet spills its last columns onto extra pages, so one row ends up split across two or three sheets of paper. That is the most common complaint about Excel to PDF everywhere. This converter avoids it: each sheet is scaled so all its columns fit the page width, and a sheet wider than a portrait page is turned to landscape first, so the text shrinks as little as possible. Rows are never cut; a long sheet simply continues on the next page. If you set your own print scaling in Excel, the converter keeps it. Hidden sheets are skipped, and gridlines appear only if you turned on printing of gridlines.
How the conversion works
Your workbook is opened by LibreOffice Calc on our own server and printed to PDF. Values are shown as they are formatted, including currency symbols such as AED and SAR, dates, percentages and Arabic text. Charts and images are included. Formulas are calculated as they were last saved; the PDF shows results, never the formulas themselves. Fonts like Calibri and Arial are matched by open fonts with the same widths, so columns keep their size.
Your workbook and the daily limit
Browsers cannot open XLSX files with their formulas and print settings intact, so the workbook travels over an encrypted connection to our own server running LibreOffice Calc. Salary sheets and statements of account are sensitive, which is why the file exists only in temporary memory, is wiped the moment the PDF is returned, and is never logged by name. Workbooks can be up to 20 MB, and each success uses one of 20 free conversions a day shared with the Word, PowerPoint and PDF to Word tools. Remove any workbook password first; VBA macros are never executed and external data links are not refreshed.