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Lotus 1-2-3 to PDF converter

Lotus 1-2-3 is opened by our office engine headless and exported as PDF, prioritizing office fidelity for lotus-to-pdf.

  • Converted with Office engine · input deleted within 24 h
  • Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
  • Higher limits →

What changes

  • Lotus 1-2-3 is opened by our office engine headless and exported as PDF, prioritizing office fidelity for lotus-to-pdf.
  • Paragraph styles, tables, images, headers, footers, and page breaks are preserved when our office engine can map them.
  • Macros, scripts, document automation, and active form behaviour are not executed or preserved in the output.
  • Missing fonts are substituted by server fonts, so line breaks and pagination can shift from the authoring machine.
  • Tracked changes are accepted as the visible document state; reviewer comments may not appear unless they are visible in the exported view.
  • Our office engine can produce PDF output, but this service does not expose a PDF/A conformance switch in content options.

A real Lotus 1-2-3 → PDF run

We converted our Lotus 1-2-3 sample (151 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 3.6 s and produced a 143 KB PDF file, about the same size as the input. The engine raised 2 warnings, listed below.

Input · sample.wk1 · 151 KB

155,032 bytes

Output · sample.pdf · 143 KB

PDF 1.6, 47 pages, selectable text (LiberationSerif, LiberationSans), 0 image objects

Version
1.6
Pages
47
Fonts
LiberationSerif, LiberationSans
Images
0
Text layer
yes
  • Fonts that are not installed on our servers are replaced with substitutes, so lines can wrap differently.
  • Range names are not carried over; formulas use plain cell references.

Options

filter
Override the office engine convert-to filter string when an advanced workflow needs a specific export filter.

Example

input
Lotus 1-2-3 file with headings, tables, and page breaks
output
PDF preserving visible pages; macros, notes, and animations are omitted

Do it in code

cli
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir out input.wk1

Lotus 1-2-3 to PDF by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=lotus&to=pdf.

curl
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.wk1" -F "from=lotus" -F "to=pdf" \
  --output output.pdf
API reference

This converter works today; a tested write-up of what changes for Lotus 1-2-3 → PDF is in progress.