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
Lotus 1-2-3 file with headings, tables, and page breaksPDF preserving visible pages; macros, notes, and animations are omittedDo it in code
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir out input.wk1Lotus 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 -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.pdfThis converter works today; a tested write-up of what changes for Lotus 1-2-3 → PDF is in progress.