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EvoPdf Next Excel to PDF Converter for .NET

The Excel to PDF Converter is a component of the EvoPdf Next Library for .NET that enables accurate conversion of complex Excel documents to PDF. You can enhance the generated PDF with headers, footers and stamps or apply security features.

The library targets .NET Standard 2.0 and can be used in .NET Core and .NET Framework applications that you can deploy on Windows and Linux platforms, including Azure App Service and Functions or Docker.

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EvoPdf Next Excel to PDF Converter
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The Excel to PDF Converter is a component of the EvoPdf Next Library for .NET that enables accurate conversion of complex Excel documents to PDF. You can enhance the generated PDF with headers, footers and stamps or apply security features.

The Excel to PDF Converter is implemented as an AddOn for the EvoPdf Next HTML to PDF Converter for .NET component and they must be referenced together in the same project.

The library targets .NET Standard 2.0 and can be used in .NET Core and .NET Framework applications that you can deploy on Windows and Linux platforms, including Azure App Service and Functions or Docker.

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Main Features

  • Convert Excel XLSX documents from memory or from a file to PDF

  • Use the PDF page settings from the original Excel document

  • Use the page settings from the first or the active worksheet

  • Use custom PDF page settings to automatically reflow the content

  • Convert all worksheets or only the first worksheet

  • Display or hide the worksheet title

  • Keep the column widths and row heights from Excel

  • Add HTML headers, footers or stamps to the generated PDF

  • Control the PDF document display with PDF viewer preferences

  • Encrypt, set permissions and set passwords for the generated PDF documents

  • Add digital signatures to the generated PDF document

  • Asynchronous Excel to PDF methods that can be used with async and await
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Compatibility

  • Windows 10, 11 and Windows Server 2016 to 2025

  • Linux 64-bit distributions

  • .NET 10.0, 9.0, 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, .NET Standard 2.0

  • .NET Framework 4.6.2 to 4.8.1

  • Azure App Service and Azure Functions

  • Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines

  • Web, console and desktop applications

  • Docker containers for Windows and Linux
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Getting Started

You can quickly get started with the ASP.NET demo application available for download, or you can integrate the library into your own project. The online documentation, contains detailed instructions on how to run an application using EvoPdf Next Library for .NET on Windows and Linux machines, Azure App Service and Azure Functions for Windows and Linux.

You can view the current capabilities of the library by checking the online demo application and the API reference in the online documentation.

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Download Demo Application

The ZIP package available for download from the link below includes an ASP.NET demo application project with complete C# source code covering all major library features.

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Running the samples in the demo application that involve HTML to PDF conversion features on Linux platforms might require installing some dependency packages. The documentation includes an entire section dedicated to building, publishing and running the demo application on multiple platforms.

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NuGet Packages

The Excel to PDF Converter is distributed as part of the EvoPdf.Next.ExcelToPdf.AddOn NuGet package and must be installed together with EvoPdf.Next.HtmlToPdf.Windows or EvoPdf.Next.HtmlToPdf.Linux to enable Excel to PDF conversion in your application, depending on the deployment target.

As an alternative, you can reference the EvoPdf.Next.Windows or EvoPdf.Next.Linux metapackages for all components which is a more convenient option if you are also using other components of the library.

There is also a multiplatform metapackage EvoPdf.Next that references all the EvoPdf Next Library components for both Windows and Linux platforms.

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Installation

The Excel to PDF Converter is implemented as an AddOn for the EvoPdf Next HTML to PDF Converter for .NET component and they must be referenced together in the same project, generally through a NuGet metapackage which installs both the HTML to PDF Converter NuGet package and the Excel to PDF Converter AddOn.

The HTML to PDF Converter component uses a platform specific runtime. On Windows platforms, the runtime generally does not require the installation of additional dependencies. On Linux platforms installing some dependency packages might be necessary, depending on the exact version of Linux you are using.
In online documentation in the Getting Started and Publish guides you can find instructions about Linux dependencies installation on a variety of Linux platforms.

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EvoPdf.Next Namespace

All components of the EvoPdf Next for .NET library share the same EvoPdf.Next namespace and can be used together in the same application. To use the library in your own code, add the using directive at the top of your C# source file, as shown below. 

// add this using statement at the top of your C# file
using EvoPdf.Next;
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You can use the sample code below to convert an Excel document to a PDF document that you can either save to a file or send to the browser for download. 

// Create an Excel to PDF converter object with default settings
ExcelToPdfConverter excelToPdfConverter = new ExcelToPdfConverter();

// Convert Excel file to a PDF in a memory buffer
byte[] outPdfBuffer = excelToPdfConverter.ConvertToPdf(excelFilePath);