[Need] Software to convert spreadsheets to single TIFF

I am curious what the requirement is for?

I'm looking for software that can take an Excel spreadsheet and produce one single TIFF of that spreadsheet. Even better, configuration options that allow for different sized one-page outputs. So I could make a 16000x16000 TIFF if I wanted.

You may be able to locate one of these Windows pseudo-printer drivers that produce image files. With the appropriate configuration that would get you one file per worksheet in the Excel file. Putting them together into one file would be more of a Paint or Photoshop job.

See 'List of virtual printer software' on Wikipedia for some ideas.

It might also be possible to do this is an already existing printer driver (e.g. output to file capability), but ability to set up a custom page size is not that common. (Last time I remember I saw that was with some kind of phototypesetter, but that didn't do output to file in anything byt PostScript format. However, if you have a PostScript-to-bitmap solution that might be a possible approach.)

I've experimented with several production tools and they exhibit the same issue for spreadsheets of any size, the render to TIFF produces multiple page TIFFs.

I'm looking for software that can take an Excel spreadsheet and produce one single TIFF of that spreadsheet. Even better, configuration options that allow for different sized one-page outputs. So I could make a 16000x16000 TIFF if I wanted.

http//social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ed94d2ac-7c50-4731-9194-626e887ab3c8/steps-on-how-to-print-a-tif-file-with-windows-7-64bit-office-2010

AFAIK the only issue with an "Image" printer driver is (virtual) paper size and DPI.

This Commercial product (as an example)
http//code-industry.net/imageprinterpro.php
allows both DPI settings and "Custom" paper size
http//code-industry.net/imageprinterpro-help/custom-paper-size.php
Another one
http//www.blackice.com/Printer%20Drivers/Large%20Paper%20Size.htm

Unless there is a particular reason to use a bitmap format for this, the use of a vector based one such as PDF seems more suitable, however, this
http//www.pdfill.com/freewriter_image.html#2
should be able to do BOTH .

But you can "play" a bit with things such as
http//www.codeproject.com/Articles/112670/Print-to-TIFF
and of course ghostscript
http//www.ghostscript.com/
http//ghostscript.com/doc/current/Devices.htm#TIFF

jaclaz

IPro and Law can both do this.

We use Law and NeedleFinder.

I am curious what the requirement is for?

Michael

It's for review purposes (1000s of documents, many of them spreadsheets) to determine relevance in a discovery. Some of these documents are very large spreadsheets, CAD drawings and other technical documents that are much easier to view as a single entity rather than trying to deal with a document->tiff type conversion that split these files over multiple pages and make it harder on the reviewer.

Thanks to all for your replies - I will research and post back with what worked for me.

How about writing an Excel VBA script to iterate through all xls/xlsx files in a folder (can do this with subfolders recursively if you need). You can then use the print command to print each worksheet to a PDF or TIFF printer. I have used this approach once but sadly can't find the code. Wish I had more time to help you.