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: ...