Creating PDF and HTML Files

You can create PDF and HTML by going to File > Export and then choosing the desired format. You can customize the page layout as you wish under File > Page Setup.

In User mode

In Designer mode

Setting the print area

The print area by default is the range from A1 to the last cell with an entry in the current worksheet. To set a diﬀerent print area, go to File > Page Setup > Sheet. Here you can set a speciﬁc range of cells to print, or enter rows and columns to repeat using the following format:

$3:$3 Line 3 will be repeated on each page.

$3:$5 Lines 3-5 will be repeated on each page.

$B:$B Column B will be repeated on each page.

$B:$D Columns B-D will be repeated on each page.

Headers and footers

In the Header/Footer tab, you can customize your headers and footers in a number of ways, such as inserting dates, page numbers, or pictures. Simply click on the icons (see image above) to insert the desired element. You can insert the following ﬁle types in your headers and footers: gif, jpg, jpeg, and png.

Note 1: For DynaRanges the print area needs to be at least one row (for vertical DRs) or one column (for horizontal DRs) larger than the DynaRange(s).

Note 2: Languages written from right to left are displayed from left to right. This error is currently not ﬁxable.

Note 3: PDFs can only be created with the correct font if the used font is available ( for Windows in the folder …\Windows\Fonts). Otherwise, the PDF ﬁle will be created with a similar font, or, as in the case of characters in Comic Sans MS Italic, the characters will be created non-italic.

Note 4: To print PDFs of multibyte characters languages (e.g. Japanese), the font Arial Unicode MS must be available on the server as

Copyright © Jedox AG the default fallback font. For servers on Linux this font is shipped with the Jedox setup. If Arial Unicode MS is not available on the server, you must set another multibyte font as the default fallback one.

The example below shows how you can set the font NotoSansCJKjp- Regular as the default fallback font:

Go to Administration > Settings and add the key spreadsheet.style.pdf_fallback_font with the value NotoSansCJKjp-Regular:

For more information on how to change the Jedox Web Settings, see Overview of Jedox Web Settings.