xlsgen 3.5 introduces a rewritten PDF engine.



Benefits of the new PDF engine :
- selectable text
- copy/paste elsewhere
- scalable layout
- up to 90% reduction in file size
- up to 50% faster
- up to 50% reduction in memory use

Customers have been using our PDF engine a lot since we introduced it back in xlsgen 2.5. But over time, a number of requests were made : the text in spreadsheets could not be selected unlike other PDF files out there ; could not scale to bigger zoom ; the PDF files produced by xlsgen were big in size ; the generation process could be slow. All of this is now solved with a completely rewritten PDF engine. The old one is still accessible with one line of code, should you want to stick with it. Of course, it is highly recommended to use the new PDF engine given the many benefits. Any piece of text is now selectable and can be brought to and from your favorite PDF reader. We have tested our PDF engine against Adobe Reader (several versions) as well as a number of free alternatives. Text is now scalable arbitrarily. The PDF files created by xlsgen are now much smaller in size, so they are also much quicker to navigate in a PDF reader. The PDF files created by xlsgen are also faster to generate and take less memory for doing so.

The PDF files still contain what anyone should expect, i.e. rich-formatted text in cells, background grid, borders, applied conditional formattings, pictures, charts, text boxes and vector shapes, header and footer, table of contents.