Hi,
We are using Office Excel 2010 to convert .xls file to PDF. This is achieved using Excel's "save as" pdf option.
The conversion of .xls to .pdf on our internal servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 takes about 2 minutes. These internal servers are Virtual Machines running on VMWare
The performance issue arises when we try doing the same on Virtual Machine in the cloud - both Azure and AWS.
The issue is that the conversion process takes about 20 minutes.
The excel file size is about 5MB made of multiple worksheets with text, images and multiple charts.
We have tried the following Server operating systems with very little performance improvement.
Window server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012
We have tried Office 2010 and Office 2013 (trial version).
Can anyone provide additional insight on the disparity in performance?