CSV to PDF Converter

A CSV file is easy to export from a database, a shop or a bank, but awkward to print or attach to an email for someone without a spreadsheet program. This converter lays the data out as a proper table on A4, Letter, Legal or A3 pages: column widths follow the content, long cells wrap, the header row repeats on every page, and numbers line up on the right. It runs in your browser, so the data stays on your device.

How to use this tool

1. Drop one or more .csv or .tsv files, or paste the data into the text box.
2. Leave the delimiter and encoding on automatic unless the preview looks wrong.
3. Choose the page size; wide tables switch to landscape automatically.
4. Adjust the font size, stripes, grid lines and title, then download the PDF.

Formula

Column width = widest text in the column + padding, capped at first at 45% of the page width; spare width goes back to the capped columns, and if the total is still too wide, narrow columns keep their width and wide columns share the rest.

Widths are measured with the real Helvetica metrics at the chosen font size. If even the minimum width (about 2.4 × the font size per column) does not fit, the font shrinks in 0.5 pt steps down to 5 pt. Cells with text that the built-in PDF fonts cannot encode — Korean, Chinese, Greek, Cyrillic — are drawn as sharp 216 DPI images on top of the page.

Example

A 120-row product list with the columns SKU, Name and Price at 9 pt, every cell on one line: a row is 9 × 1.22 + 2 × 3.6 ≈ 18.2 pt high, so 39 rows fit under the title and header on the first A4 page and 40 on each following page. The table fills 4 A4 portrait pages, prices are right-aligned, and each page starts with the bold header row and ends with "Page n of 4".