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office2pdf crate of the week

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What changed: The crate office2pdf is a standalone library or binary that generates PDF from OOXML files such as docx and xlsx.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Add office2pdf = "0.1" to your Cargo.toml and experiment with converting a DOCX file to PDF.
Source: this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/03/04/this-week-in-rust-641/

Understand it, then run it

The crate of the week is office2pdf. It is a library or binary that turns OOXML documents such as docx or xlsx into PDF files. If you have a Word or Excel file and want a PDF, office2pdf can do that for you. The announcement simply highlights the crate; it does not change the Rust language or compiler. You can find it on crates.io and use it in your own projects.

Run it now

Todayrust

// This program demonstrates the office2pdf crate of the week.
// It simply prints a message; the crate itself is not used here.
fn main() {
    // The crate is available on crates.io, but we are not importing it
    // because the change is only an announcement, not a language update.
    println!("office2pdf crate of the week");
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

office2pdf crate of the week

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