01Watch

The same workbook,
exported twice.

Every frame below is the shipping app rendering a real 23-column workbook. Excel’s own Save as PDF ran it to 24 pages with most of the columns off the first one. CrazySmartPDF laid it out in 10, every column on the page and every row kept whole.

4 films · 1:57 total · captions and full transcripts on every one

CrazySmartPDF — the real app, on a real workbook · 0:50 · sample data — invented companies and figures, no customer files
Transcript — CrazySmartPDF — the real app, on a real workbook

You export the spreadsheet, and the PDF comes out wrong — columns cut off at the edge, a row split down the middle. So you fix the page breaks by hand. Again. Or you drop the same workbook into CrazySmartPDF. It re-lays every column onto the page, and never splits a row across a page break. Same workbook, two exports. Excel ran twenty-four pages with most columns off the first; CrazySmartPDF laid it out in ten — every column on the page, every row kept whole. Then it checks its own work and flags any page that came out blank or clipped. And the desktop app takes a whole folder in one pass, or you convert one file free in your browser. Take the sheet that never prints right, and try it free on your own file.

02Short cuts

One idea each, under thirty seconds.

Cut for a phone from the same film and the same recording. Nothing new is claimed in them; each one takes a single part of the job and shows it on its own.

01 · 0:29

The row that got cut in half

The same workbook exported to PDF twice. Excel Save as PDF ran 24 pages with most of the 23 columns off the first one; CrazySmartPDF laid it out in 10, every column on the page and every row kept whole.

Transcript

You export the spreadsheet and the PDF comes out wrong columns cut off at the edge a row split down the middle It re-lays every column onto the page and never splits a row across a page break Excel ran twenty-four pages with most columns off the first CrazySmartPDF laid it out in ten every column on the page every row kept whole Take the sheet that never prints right and try it free on your own file

02 · 0:19

The check nobody does by hand

CrazySmartPDF reads its own PDF back and flags any page that came out blank or clipped, so a bad page is caught before the file goes out.

Transcript

So you fix the page breaks by hand Again Or you drop the same workbook into CrazySmartPDF Then it checks its own work and flags any page that came out blank or clipped Take the sheet that never prints right and try it free on your own file

03 · 0:18

One folder in, one pass

The Windows desktop app points at a folder of workbooks and turns every one into a PDF in a single pass, with a run log. The free web converter takes one file at a time in any browser.

Transcript

the desktop app takes a whole folder in one pass or you convert one file free in your browser It re-lays every column onto the page and never splits a row across a page break Take the sheet that never prints right and try it free on your own file

03What you are looking at

Real output, invented data.

The workbook A 23-column invoice ledger. Every company, invoice number and figure in it was invented for the film. No customer file has ever been used.
The PDFs Both exports are real files. Excel’s Save as PDF produced 24 pages and put most of the columns past the edge of page 1; CrazySmartPDF produced 10, with all 23 columns on the page and no row split across a break.
The interface The app frames are the shipping Windows app’s own interface rendering its own state. Nothing was mocked up for the camera.
Captions Word timings come from the narration itself, then get checked against the measured length of the file they belong to. A track longer than its film fails the build.