Convert Excel to PDF using JavaScript

Question

How can I convert Excel documents (files) to PDF in an automated fashion? I am trying to adapt the solution found here to Excel. So far I have this:

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Answer 1

You're clobbering objExcel on line 15:

var objExcel = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(docPath);

Those lines of code need to use a different variable, e.g.:

var objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(docPath);

var wdFormatPdf = 57;
objWorkbook.SaveAs(pdfPath, wdFormatPdf);
objWorkbook.Close();

Answer 2

Try to use .ExportAsFixedFormat property instead of .SaveAs. First one is suitable for creating PDF files in Excel but not SaveAs which doesn't support PDF format.

I guess you would need something like this:

objExcel.ExportAsFixedFormat(0, pdfPath)