Convert Office to PDF Guide

Create your own solutions to convert Powerpoint, Excel and Word documents to PDF while maintaining the layout.

Remember that in order to use our Tool Guides, you need to have previous knowledge about the basics to processing a PDF with our REST API. We strongly recommend that you read the Processing a PDF guide before starting this one.

Supported file formats are: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP, ODS.

Basic Office to PDF conversion

By choosing the Office to PDF tool, every file you upload will be converted to a PDF file, as shown in this code:

Basic Office to PDF conversion

// Create a new task
$myTaskConvertOffice = $ilovepdf->newTask('officepdf');
// Add files to task for upload
$file1 = $myTaskConvertOffice->addFile('path/to/file1_name.doc');
$file2 = $myTaskConvertOffice->addFile('path/to/file2_name.xls');
// Execute the task
$myTaskConvertOffice>execute();
// Download the package files
$myTaskConvertOffice->download();

// Create a new task
var taskConvertOffice = api.CreateTask<OfficeToPdfTask>();
// Add files to task for upload
var file1 = taskConvertOffice.AddFile("path/to/file/file1_name.docx");
var file2 = taskConvertOffice.AddFile('path/to/file1_name.xls');
// Execute the task
taskConvertOffice.Process();
// Download the package files
taskConvertOffice.DownloadFile();

# Create a new task
my_task_convert_office = ilovepdf.new_task :officepdf
# Add files to task for upload
file1 = my_task_convert_office.add_file = 'path/to/file1_name.doc'
file2 = my_task_convert_office.add_file = 'path/to/file2_name.xls'
# Execute the task
my_task_convert_office.execute
# Download the package files
my_task_convert_office.download

const task = ilovepdf.newTask('officepdf') as OfficePdfTask;

task.start()
.then(() => {
    const file = new ILovePDFFile('./path/to/file1_name.doc');
    return task.addFile(file);
})
.then(() => {
    return task.process();
})
.then(() => {
    return task.download();
})
.then((data) => {
    fs.writeFileSync('path/to/local/file_name.pdf', data);
});

This example uploads a Word file and an Excel file to be converted both to PDF.