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GroupDocs.Viewer uses page breaks to split a worksheet into separate pages. Microsoft Excel adds automatic page breaks based on paper size and page settings, but you can also insert manual horizontal and vertical page breaks. Switch to Page Break Preview in Microsoft Excel to see where page breaks appear on a worksheet.

In the image below, the vertical page break is inserted after the column E, and the horizontal page break is located under the row 30.

To render a worksheet based on the inserted page breaks, call the SpreadsheetOptions.for_rendering_by_page_breaks static method and assign the returned SpreadsheetOptions instance to the ViewOptions.spreadsheet_options property of your view (depending on the output file format).

The following example converts a worksheet to PDF and uses the page breaks to split this worksheet into pages:

with gv.Viewer("products.xlsx") as viewer:
    # Convert the spreadsheet to PDF.
    viewOptions = gvo.PdfViewOptions("output.pdf")
    # Split using page breaks.
    viewOptions.spreadsheet_options = gvo.SpreadsheetOptions.for_rendering_by_page_breaks()
    viewer.view(viewOptions)

The image below illustrates the result.

The following code snippet splits a worksheet into two pages and renders them to PDF:

with gv.Viewer("two-pages.xlsx") as viewer:
    # Specify number of rows for every page.
    rows_per_page = 15
    # Convert the spreadsheet to PDF.
    viewOptions = gvo.PdfViewOptions("output.pdf")
    # Split by number of rows.
    viewOptions.spreadsheet_options = gvo.SpreadsheetOptions.for_split_sheet_into_pages(rows_per_page)
    viewer.view(viewOptions)

The image below demonstrates the output PDF file.

The following code snippet splits a worksheet into four pages and renders them to PDF:

with gv.Viewer("four-pages.xlsx") as viewer:
    # Specify number of rows and columns for every page.
    rows_per_page = 15
    column_per_page = 7
    # Convert the spreadsheet to PDF.
    viewOptions = gvo.PdfViewOptions("output.pdf")
    # Split by number of rows.
    viewOptions.spreadsheet_options = gvo.SpreadsheetOptions.for_split_sheet_into_pages(rows_per_page, column_per_page)
    viewer.view(viewOptions)

The image below demonstrates the output PDF file.

In Microsoft Excel, you can designate one or more cell ranges in a worksheet as the only region to print (a print area). A worksheet can contain multiple print areas. Each print area prints on its own page.

GroupDocs.Viewer also supports this option. Call the SpreadsheetOptions.for_rendering_print_area static method and assign the returned SpreadsheetOptions instance to the ViewOptions.spreadsheet_options property to display only the worksheet’s print area in the output HTML, PDF, or image file.

The following example renders the print area displayed in the image above to PDF:

with gv.Viewer("invoice.xlsx") as viewer:
    # Convert the spreadsheet to PDF.
    viewOptions = gvo.PdfViewOptions("output.pdf")
    # Render the print area only.
    viewOptions.spreadsheet_options = gvo.SpreadsheetOptions.for_rendering_print_area()
    viewer.view(viewOptions)

The image below illustrates the result.

If you want to display all worksheet data on one page, call the SpreadsheetOptions.for_one_page_per_sheet static method and assign the returned SpreadsheetOptions instance to the ViewOptions.spreadsheet_options property for a target view.

The following example converts each worksheet to one page in the PDF file:

with gv.Viewer("Products.xlsx") as viewer:
    # Convert the spreadsheet to PDF.
    viewOptions = gvo.PdfViewOptions("output.pdf")
    # Render each worksheet to one page.
    viewOptions.spreadsheet_options = gvo.SpreadsheetOptions.for_one_page_per_sheet()
    viewer.view(viewOptions)

The image below illustrates the result. The output PDF file contains one page that displays all worksheet data.

GroupDocs.Viewer uses page breaks to split a worksheet into separate pages. Microsoft Excel adds automatic page breaks based on paper size and page settings, but you can also insert manual horizontal and vertical page breaks. Switch to Page Break Preview in Microsoft Excel to see where page breaks appear on a worksheet.

Also, you can designate one or more cell ranges in a worksheet as the only region to print (a print area). A worksheet can contain multiple print areas. Each print area prints on its own page.

When printing, Microsoft Excel splits a worksheet into pages using both page breaks and print areas. In the following image the red line shows the print area, and the blue line shows page breaks:

GroupDocs.Viewer also supports this option. Call the SpreadsheetOptions.for_rendering_print_area_and_page_breaks static method and assign the returned SpreadsheetOptions instance to the ViewOptions.spreadsheet_options property to display only the worksheet’s print area in the output HTML, PDF, or image file.

The following example renders the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using page breaks and print areas displayed in the image above to PDF:

with gv.Viewer("Products.xlsx") as viewer:
    # Render the spreadsheet to PDF.
    viewOptions = gvo.PdfViewOptions("output.pdf")
    viewOptions.spreadsheet_options = gvo.SpreadsheetOptions.for_rendering_print_area_and_page_breaks()
    viewer.view(viewOptions)

The image below illustrates the result: