Converting Wide Excel Tables to Single-Page PDFs with LibreOffice

The Problem While working on a freelance project, I needed to generate PDF reports from Excel files. The challenge? The Excel files were wide and long. Here we see a sample Excel file around 15 columns containing employee data like ID, name, email, department, job title, hire date, salary, and more. I used LibreOffice’s CLI utility convert-to in headless mode to convert the files. The conversion worked, but the result was unusable: ...

November 21, 2025 · 5 min

Apps Script

Beginning I mainly started freelancing from 2024. At that time I had a client who had accounting/consulting firm, they needed a telegram bot to create template word contracts. They said they had started doing it but didn’t have time to finish it themselves. I saw their code, it was on apps script. At that time I first came across with apps script. I made the telegram with aiogram/python. btw, I used encoding files with base64, docxtpl to render docx files from template. ...

July 22, 2025 · 3 min