The honest answers.

Those do a dumb print: same margins, same cut-offs, same tiny “fit to one page” text — and one file at a time. CrazySmartPDF actually re-lays-out each sheet so no row is split and wide columns are fitted or sliced across pages rather than clipped, does a whole folder at once, tells you if it had to drop anything, and checks its own output for bad pages. It’s the layout work you’d otherwise do by hand on every file.

Yes — it’s free. CrazySmartPDF is free to use, with no trial clock and no paywall on the core features. We may add paid options for heavier or more advanced use down the road, but the core stays free.

No. The engine is general — it renders any Excel workbook. Invoices are just where it started. It’s just as at home with financial statements, board reports, rate cards, schedules, and wide data tables — anything that has to look right on a page.

Yes. CrazySmartPDF renders your real workbook, so it uses your installed Excel (2016 or newer, Windows) under the hood — that’s how it stays pixel-true. If Excel isn’t present, the add-in and desktop app tell you clearly rather than fail silently.

With the Excel add-in and the desktop app, no — everything renders locally and your original files are never modified. The web app is different: it renders on our hosted service, so it’s for convenience, not for data that must stay on-premises. It’s in beta while we get that right.

Your choice — one sheet, several, or the whole workbook in order. You can also mark specific sheets (like a pivot or cover) to print through Excel natively, and adjust paper size, margins and orientation.

Never. CrazySmartPDF only reads your workbook and writes new PDF files. Your .xlsx is left exactly as it was.

No. CrazySmartPDF renders by driving your installed Excel on Windows, and that engine is Windows-only — there’s no Mac or Linux add-in or desktop app. The only no-install route is the web app (beta), which renders on our hosted service rather than on your machine.

CrazySmartPDF is free to use, but it’s still in active development — there’s no public download link yet. For now, the best way to see it is the live demo on this site, which walks you through the render flow. When the add-in and app are ready to hand out, we’ll make them available here.

The Excel add-in and the desktop app run fully offline — once installed, they render right on your machine with no connection needed. Only the web app (beta) needs the internet, because it renders on our hosted service.

Standard Excel workbooks — .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm and .xlsb. Because it renders through your own copy of Excel, it can open whatever your Excel opens. What comes out is always an ordinary PDF.

Multiple sheets, yes — one, several, or the whole workbook in order. For pivot tables, cover pages, or sheets built around charts, you can mark those sheets to print through Excel natively, so they come out looking exactly as Excel itself prints them. The smart re-layout handles the ordinary data grids, where a row or cell is never split across a page break.

Yes — because it renders your real workbook through your installed Excel, the fonts, number formats, colours and styling come out just as Excel shows them. What CrazySmartPDF changes is the pagination: it re-lays-out the pages so no row is split, and wide columns are fitted or sliced across pages rather than clipped. The content itself is untouched.

After it renders, CrazySmartPDF rasterises its own PDF and scans every page for two things: blank or orphan pages, and content clipped at the right edge. It flags whatever it finds so you can look before you send — it points out the suspect page instead of shipping it silently. It doesn’t auto-fix; the flag is the feature.

Yes — that’s the batch mode in the desktop app. Point it at a folder of workbooks and it renders every one in a single pass, with a running log and a self-check report at the end. It’s built for month-end runs and reporting stacks, not one file at a time.

Same rendering engine, three surfaces. The Excel add-in adds a one-click Smart Export button to your ribbon and runs locally inside Excel. The desktop app is standalone and adds folder batch processing plus a PDF page extractor, also fully on your machine. The web app (beta) needs no install and runs from any browser, but it renders on our hosted service rather than on your device. The add-in and desktop app keep everything on-device; the web app is the hosted convenience option.