Xls -> Pdf

[Fraki]

I have an MS Excel spreadsheet (.XLS) that I'd like to turn into a .PDF for web usage. How would I got about doing this?

Should I take a screen shot of it, paste it into Photoshop and save it as a .PDF?

Seems like there'd be a better way than that...

Any help would be appreciated :D

[Ddr]

There are some converters out there that are shareware. They seem to require that you have a postscript printer installed. You didn't say if you need this regularly or if this is a one-shot thing. Perhaps you can download a trial version and get your job done as a "test" before you buy the software? If you have PDF writing software, I believe it can be converted using that. You can also email your file to a service and have it converted and emailed back as a PDF file in minutes (check out the last link for that).

Take a look at:

http://www.sharewarejunction.com/info.asp?ProductID=6232

Also look at:

http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/

http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?WebPageID=293

http://www.gohtm.com/

Hope this gets you where you want to go.

Dale

[(jj)]

Fraki,

I can't remember if this place handles an xls file or not, I know they do doc and txt files.

It's a free service and all you do is upload your file and they email it back to you in pdf format. I've used it several times for Word files and it does a really good job.

http://www.gohtm.com/


Just my "For What It's Worth"

hmmm, didn't notice that Dale had that one in his list... oh well, now you know what "gohtm" is :)

[RocketJeff]

Adobe (producers of Acrobat and creators of the PDF spec) has a website that'll let you upload files and retrieve a pdf of them. It is a subscription service, but it does have a free trial for 5 documents. It's at http://createpdf.adobe.com/

The 'grandfather' of alternate pdf creation - ps2pdf - also has a website with free creation of pdf documents. The 'catch' with this one is that they only take postscript output files (.ps). This is easy enough to do in windows - install a printer driver that uses postscript (most high end laser printers do) and set it to send the output to a file. There's more information on the site at http://www.ps2pdf.com/

Of course, the easy way would be to just buy Adobe Acrobat. I find that it's real handy to have and was well worth the price (of course, I'm still on version 3 so it's a long-term amortization).

[NMS]

If you want send it over and I can do it for you.

Usually this is done against payment but I can fiter it in with other work for free (as long it is less then 5 pages).

Contact me.

[Fraki]

I tried the email converters, but my chart in the .xls is too wide for the PDF and the columns get sent to the bottom of the document...

Neville, I'm taking you up on your offer, check your info@nmgroup.biz inbox. Thanks a lot!

In the meantime, I'm going to look into getting Adobe Acrobat.

Thanks everyone for the help!

[NMS]

you forgot to check the page set-up...it should have been set to wide.

Anyway I managed to do it properly for you...check your mailbox.

[Fraki]

Looks great! Thanks!