https://advenn.github.io/blog/tags/libreoffice/Recent content in Libreoffice on Asadbek KurbonovHugo -- 0.148.0en-usFri, 21 Nov 2025 23:42:51 +0100https://advenn.github.io/blog/posts/convert-to-pdf-with-libreoffice/Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:42:51 +0100https://advenn.github.io/blog/posts/convert-to-pdf-with-libreoffice/<h2 id="the-problem">The Problem</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>I used LibreOffice&rsquo;s CLI utility <code>convert-to</code> in headless mode to convert the files. The conversion worked, but the result was unusable:</p>