CSV to PDF
Set a comma-separated file on paper as a table, with its headings on every page.
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Or paste them, or pick them from this device. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens in this tab.
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Options
What the PDF will be called.
A multiple of the text size. 1.4 is what a book uses.
Even word spacing; an uneven right edge.
Helvetica.
Advanced
A TrueType or OpenType font to set the text in. Needed for anything the built-in typefaces cannot draw — Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese. The file is read here, in this tab, and embedded in the PDF.
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What this does
This sets a comma-separated file on paper as a proper table, with the heading row repeated at the top of every page and the columns sized to their content. The separator is worked out from the file itself — comma, semicolon, tab or pipe, whichever divides every line into the same number of fields — so an export from a European spreadsheet works without being told.
What it will not do
Every tool here says what it cannot do, in its own words, before you rely on it.
- The separator is worked out from the file: a comma, a semicolon, a tab or a pipe, whichever divides every line into the same number of fields. A file that is not a table throughout may be divided by the wrong one.
- The file has to be UTF-8. A file saved in a legacy encoding arrives with its accented characters mangled.
- A table wider than the page has its columns squeezed together to fit rather than running off the edge, so a very wide table is more readable on landscape paper, or at a smaller text size.
- A cell holding more than will fit its column wraps inside it, which makes the row taller rather than the column wider.
- Text is set in the standard fonts every reader already carries, so the file renders identically on a machine that has none of your fonts installed. Anything they cannot draw needs a font file, which is embedded and subsetted into the PDF with it.
- A font file you supply is used for everything: bold, italic and monospaced text are all drawn in that one face rather than in a bold, italic or fixed-width cut of it. Code blocks and columns of figures lose their alignment as a result, so supply one only when the built-in fonts cannot draw your text.
- Shaping and joining come from the font itself, and nothing reorders a line: text is drawn in the order it is given, so a line mixing right-to-left and left-to-right writing comes out in that order rather than in reading order.
Questions people ask
It used the wrong separator.
That happens when the file is not a table all the way down — a preamble line, or a stray delimiter inside an unquoted field. You can set the separator yourself rather than letting it be detected.
My table is too wide to read.
Set the page to landscape, or reduce the text size. Columns are squeezed to fit rather than cut off, so a very wide table stays complete but gets narrow.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The work happens in this browser tab, on your own machine. There is no server in this product to send a file to, which is why the promise is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust: open your browser's network panel and watch it do the work without making a request.
Is there a size limit, or a limit on how many files?
None that we impose. The limit is your own machine's memory, because that is where the work happens — a few hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop, and less on a phone. There is no daily task counter, no queue and no account.
What does it cost, and what is the catch?
Nothing, and there is no paid tier that unlocks features: the whole product is the free one. That is affordable because running it costs us nothing — your computer does the work — so there is no per-file cost to recover, no advertising and no data to sell.