Re: Creating PDF from excel tables

Hi Markus,

Thank you for your suggestions. The gotenberg containers are certainly
interesting. I'll try google sheets as well.

Many thanks,
Jakub

On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 13:59, Markus Kirsten <[email protected]> wrote:

> Two more options, depending on your use-case
> * Gotenberg, takes Excel files and produces PDFs in a stateless Docker
> container - https://gotenberg.dev/
> * You can use a partly undocumented feature in Google Sheets: shoot up the
> file to Sheets, get the URL and add on parameters to export to PDF and get
> the PDF back (rendered by Google's print engine)
>
> I've used both successfully. First one is the more production grade way to
> do it, and the second can be a quick hack.
>
> On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 12:25, Andreas Reichel <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 12:12 +0200, Jakub Vojtíšek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a couple of general questions:
> > > 1) Is there any plan or desire for POI to support exporting Excel
> > > tables to
> > > PDF?
> > > 2) Do you know of any framework, preferably open source, using POI to
> > > create PDF documents from excel files?
> >
> > On more thing: Instead of POI, you may use the LibreOffice UNO Java
> > interface to print the spreadsheet to PDF. Although this will depend on
> > an installation of LibreOffice if will certainly give you the best PDF.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> >
>