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This is a rewrite of my text2pdf converter posted as recipe #189858, which can be used to convert pure text files to PDF.

Python, 601 lines
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#! /usr/bin/env python
"""
 pyText2Pdf - Python script to convert plain text files into Adobe
 Acrobat PDF files with support for arbitrary page breaks etc.

 Version 2.0

 Author: Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail dot com>
    
"""

# Derived from http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/189858

import sys, os
import string
import time
import optparse
import re

LF_EXTRA=0
LINE_END='\015'
# form feed character (^L)
FF=chr(12)

ENCODING_STR = """\
/Encoding <<
/Differences [ 0 /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /space /exclam
/quotedbl /numbersign /dollar /percent /ampersand
/quoteright /parenleft /parenright /asterisk /plus /comma
/hyphen /period /slash /zero /one /two /three /four /five
/six /seven /eight /nine /colon /semicolon /less /equal
/greater /question /at /A /B /C /D /E /F /G /H /I /J /K /L
/M /N /O /P /Q /R /S /T /U /V /W /X /Y /Z /bracketleft
/backslash /bracketright /asciicircum /underscore
/quoteleft /a /b /c /d /e /f /g /h /i /j /k /l /m /n /o /p
/q /r /s /t /u /v /w /x /y /z /braceleft /bar /braceright
/asciitilde /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
/dotlessi /grave /acute /circumflex /tilde /macron /breve
/dotaccent /dieresis /.notdef /ring /cedilla /.notdef
/hungarumlaut /ogonek /caron /space /exclamdown /cent
/sterling /currency /yen /brokenbar /section /dieresis
/copyright /ordfeminine /guillemotleft /logicalnot /hyphen
/registered /macron /degree /plusminus /twosuperior
/threesuperior /acute /mu /paragraph /periodcentered
/cedilla /onesuperior /ordmasculine /guillemotright
/onequarter /onehalf /threequarters /questiondown /Agrave
/Aacute /Acircumflex /Atilde /Adieresis /Aring /AE
/Ccedilla /Egrave /Eacute /Ecircumflex /Edieresis /Igrave
/Iacute /Icircumflex /Idieresis /Eth /Ntilde /Ograve
/Oacute /Ocircumflex /Otilde /Odieresis /multiply /Oslash
/Ugrave /Uacute /Ucircumflex /Udieresis /Yacute /Thorn
/germandbls /agrave /aacute /acircumflex /atilde /adieresis
/aring /ae /ccedilla /egrave /eacute /ecircumflex
/edieresis /igrave /iacute /icircumflex /idieresis /eth
/ntilde /ograve /oacute /ocircumflex /otilde /odieresis
/divide /oslash /ugrave /uacute /ucircumflex /udieresis
/yacute /thorn /ydieresis ]
>>
"""

INTRO="""\
%prog [options] filename

PyText2Pdf  makes a 7-bit clean PDF file from any input file.

It reads from a named file, and writes the PDF file to a file specified by
the user, otherwise to a file with '.pdf' appended to the input file.

Author: Anand B Pillai."""


class PyText2Pdf(object):
    """ Text2pdf converter in pure Python """
    
    def __init__(self):
        # version number
        self._version="1.3"
        # iso encoding flag
        self._IsoEnc=False
        # formfeeds flag
        self._doFFs=False
        self._progname="PyText2Pdf"
        self._appname = " ".join((self._progname,str(self._version)))
        # default font
        self._font="/Courier"
        # default font size
        self._ptSize=10
        # default vert space
        self._vertSpace=12
        self._lines=0
        # number of characters in a row
        self._cols=80
        self._columns=1
        # page ht
        self._pageHt=792
        # page wd
        self._pageWd=612
        # input file 
        self._ifile=""
        # output file 
        self._ofile=""
        # default tab width
        self._tab=4
        # input file descriptor
        self._ifs=None
        # output file descriptor
        self._ofs=None
        # landscape flag
        self._landscape=False
        # Subject
        self._subject = ''
        # Author
        self._author = ''
        # Keywords
        self._keywords = []
        # Custom regexp  for page breaks
        self._pagebreakre = None
        
        # marker objects
        self._curobj = 5
        self._pageObs = [0]
        self._locations = [0,0,0,0,0,0]
        self._pageNo=0

        # file position marker
        self._fpos=0

    def parse_args(self):
        
        """ Callback function called by argument parser.
        Helps to remove duplicate code """

        if len(sys.argv)<2:
            sys.argv.append('-h')
            
        parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=INTRO)
        parser.add_option('-o','--output',dest='outfile',help='Direct output to file OUTFILE',metavar='OUTFILE')
        parser.add_option('-f','--font',dest='font',help='Use Postscript font FONT (must be in standard 14, default: Courier)',
                          default='Courier')
        parser.add_option('-I','--isolatin',dest='isolatin',help='Use ISO latin-1 encoding',default=False,action='store_true')
        parser.add_option('-s','--size',dest='fontsize',help='Use font at PTSIZE points (default=>10)',metavar='PTSIZE',default=10)
        parser.add_option('-v','--linespace',dest='linespace',help='Use line spacing LINESPACE (deault 12)',metavar='LINESPACE',default=12)
        parser.add_option('-l','--lines',dest='lines',help='Lines per page (default 60, determined automatically if unspecified)',default=60, metavar=None)
        parser.add_option('-c','--chars',dest='chars',help='Maximum characters per line (default 80)',default=80,metavar=None)
        parser.add_option('-t','--tab',dest='tabspace',help='Spaces per tab character (default 4)',default=4,metavar=None)
        parser.add_option('-F','--ignoreff',dest='formfeed',help='Ignore formfeed character ^L (i.e, accept formfeed characters as pagebreaks)',default=False,action='store_true')
        parser.add_option('-P','--papersize',dest='papersize',help='Set paper size (default is letter, accepted values are "A4" or "A3")')
        parser.add_option('-W','--width',dest='width',help='Independent paper width in points',metavar=None,default=612)
        parser.add_option('-H','--height',dest='height',help='Independent paper height in points',metavar=None,default=792)
        parser.add_option('-2','--twocolumns',dest='twocolumns',help='Format as two columns',metavar=None,default=False,action='store_true')
        parser.add_option('-L','--landscape',dest='landscape',help='Format in landscape mode',metavar=None,default=False,action='store_true')
        parser.add_option('-R','--regexp',dest='pageregexp',help='Regular expression string to determine page breaks (if supplied, this will be used to split text into pages, instead of using line count)',metavar=None)
        parser.add_option('-S','--subject',dest='subject',help='Optional subject for the document',metavar=None)
        parser.add_option('-A','--author',dest='author',help='Optional author for the document',metavar=None)
        parser.add_option('-K','--keywords',dest='keywords',help='Optional list of keywords for the document (separated by commas)',metavar=None)
        

        optlist, args = parser.parse_args()
        # print optlist.__dict__, args

        if len(args)==0:
            sys.exit('Error: input file argument missing')
        elif len(args)>1:
            sys.exit('Error: Too many arguments')            

        self._ifile = args[0]
        
        d = optlist.__dict__
        if d.get('isolatin'): self._IsoEnc=True
        if d.get('formfeed'): self._doFFs = True
        if d.get('twocolumns'): self._columns = 2
        if d.get('landscape'): self._landscape = True

        self._font = '/' + d.get('font')
        psize = d.get('papersize')
        if psize=='A4':
            self._pageWd=595
            self._pageHt=842
        elif psize=='A3':
            self._pageWd=842
            self._pageHt=1190

        fsize = int(d.get('fontsize'))
        if fsize < 1: fsize = 1
        self._ptSize = fsize

        lspace = int(d.get('linespace'))
        if lspace<1: lspace = 1
        self._vertSpace = lspace

        lines = int(d.get('lines'))
        if lines<1: lines = 1
        self._lines = int(lines)

        chars = int(d.get('chars'))
        if chars<4: chars = 4
        self._cols = chars

        tab = int(d.get('tabspace'))
        if tab<1: tab = 1
        self._tab = tab

        w = int(d.get('width'))
        if w<72: w=72
        self._pageWd = w

        h = int(d.get('height'))
        if h<72: h=72
        self._pageHt = h

        # Very optional args
        author = d.get('author')
        if author: self._author = author

        subject = d.get('subject')
        if subject: self._subject = subject

        keywords = d.get('keywords')
        if keywords:
            self._keywords = keywords.split(',')

        pagebreak = d.get('pageregexp')
        if pagebreak:
            self._pagebreakre = re.compile(pagebreak, re.UNICODE|re.IGNORECASE)
        
        outfile = d.get('outfile')
        if outfile: self._ofile = outfile
        
        if self._landscape:
            print 'Landscape option on...'
        if self._columns==2:
            print 'Printing in two columns...'
        if self._doFFs:
            print 'Ignoring form feed character...'
        if self._IsoEnc:
            print 'Using ISO Latin Encoding...'

        print 'Using font',self._font[1:],'size =', self._ptSize

    def writestr(self, str):
        """ Write string to output file descriptor.
        All output operations go through this function.
        We keep the current file position also here"""

        # update current file position
        self._fpos += len(str)
        for x in range(0, len(str)):
            if str[x] == '\n':
                self._fpos += LF_EXTRA
        try:
            self._ofs.write(str)
        except IOError, e:
            print e
            return -1

        return 0
            
    def convert(self):
        """ Perform the actual conversion """
    
        if self._landscape:
            # swap page width & height
            tmp = self._pageHt
            self._pageHt = self._pageWd
            self._pageWd = tmp

        if self._lines==0:
            self._lines = (self._pageHt - 72)/self._vertSpace
        if self._lines < 1:
            self._lines=1
        
        try:
            self._ifs=open(self._ifile)
        except IOError, (strerror, errno):
            print 'Error: Could not open file to read --->', self._ifile
            sys.exit(3)

        if self._ofile=="":
            self._ofile = os.path.splitext(self._ifile)[0] + '.pdf'

        try:
            self._ofs = open(self._ofile, 'wb')
        except IOError, (strerror, errno):
            print 'Error: Could not open file to write --->', self._ofile
            sys.exit(3)

        print 'Input file=>',self._ifile
        print 'Writing pdf file',self._ofile, '...'
        self.writeheader()
        self.writepages()
        self.writerest()

        print 'Wrote file', self._ofile
        self._ifs.close()
        self._ofs.close()
        return 0

    def writeheader(self):
        """Write the PDF header"""

        ws = self.writestr

        title = self._ifile
        
        t=time.localtime()
        timestr=str(time.strftime("D:%Y%m%d%H%M%S", t))
        ws("%PDF-1.4\n")
        self._locations[1] = self._fpos
        ws("1 0 obj\n")
        ws("<<\n")

        buf = "".join(("/Creator (", self._appname, " By Anand B Pillai )\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join(("/CreationDate (", timestr, ")\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join(("/Producer (", self._appname, "(\\251 Anand B Pillai))\n"))
        ws(buf)
        if self._subject:
            title = self._subject
            buf = "".join(("/Subject (",self._subject,")\n"))
            ws(buf)
        if self._author:
            buf = "".join(("/Author (",self._author,")\n"))
            ws(buf)
        if self._keywords:
            buf = "".join(("/Keywords (",' '.join(self._keywords),")\n"))
            ws(buf)

        if title:
            buf = "".join(("/Title (", title, ")\n"))
            ws(buf)

        ws(">>\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
    
        self._locations[2] = self._fpos

        ws("2 0 obj\n")
        ws("<<\n")
        ws("/Type /Catalog\n")
        ws("/Pages 3 0 R\n")
        ws(">>\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
        
        self._locations[4] = self._fpos
        ws("4 0 obj\n")
        ws("<<\n")
        buf = "".join(("/BaseFont ", str(self._font), " /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /Name /F1 /Subtype /Type1 /Type /Font >>\n"))
        ws(buf)
    
        if self._IsoEnc:
            ws(ENCODING_STR)
            
        ws(">>\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
        
        self._locations[5] = self._fpos
        
        ws("5 0 obj\n")
        ws("<<\n")
        ws("  /Font << /F1 4 0 R >>\n")
        ws("  /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ]\n")
        ws(">>\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
    
    def startpage(self):
        """ Start a page of data """

        ws = self.writestr
        
        self._pageNo += 1
        self._curobj += 1

        self._locations.append(self._fpos)
        self._locations[self._curobj]=self._fpos
    
        self._pageObs.append(self._curobj)
        self._pageObs[self._pageNo] = self._curobj
        
        buf = "".join((str(self._curobj), " 0 obj\n"))

        ws(buf)
        ws("<<\n")
        ws("/Type /Page\n")
        ws("/Parent 3 0 R\n")
        ws("/Resources 5 0 R\n")

        self._curobj += 1
        buf = "".join(("/Contents ", str(self._curobj), " 0 R\n"))
        ws(buf)
        ws(">>\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
        
        self._locations.append(self._fpos)
        self._locations[self._curobj] = self._fpos

        buf = "".join((str(self._curobj), " 0 obj\n"))
        ws(buf)
        ws("<<\n")
        
        buf = "".join(("/Length ", str(self._curobj + 1), " 0 R\n"))
        ws(buf)
        ws(">>\n")
        ws("stream\n")
        strmPos = self._fpos
    
        ws("BT\n");
        buf = "".join(("/F1 ", str(self._ptSize), " Tf\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join(("1 0 0 1 50 ", str(self._pageHt - 40), " Tm\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join((str(self._vertSpace), " TL\n"))
        ws(buf)
    
        return strmPos

    def endpage(self, streamStart):
        """End a page of data """
        
        ws = self.writestr

        ws("ET\n")
        streamEnd = self._fpos
        ws("endstream\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
    
        self._curobj += 1
        self._locations.append(self._fpos)
        self._locations[self._curobj] = self._fpos
    
        buf = "".join((str(self._curobj), " 0 obj\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join((str(streamEnd - streamStart), '\n'))
        ws(buf)
        ws('endobj\n')
    
    def writepages(self):
        """Write pages as PDF"""
        
        ws = self.writestr

        beginstream=0
        lineNo, charNo=0,0
        ch, column=0,0
        padding,i=0,0
        atEOF=0
        linebuf = ''
        
        while not atEOF:
            beginstream = self.startpage()
            column=1
            
            while column <= self._columns:
                column += 1
                atFF=0
                atBOP=0
                lineNo=0
                # Special flag for regexp page break
                pagebreak = False
                
                while lineNo < self._lines and not atFF and not atEOF and not pagebreak:
                    linebuf = ''
                    lineNo += 1
                    ws("(")
                    charNo=0
                    
                    while charNo < self._cols:
                        charNo += 1
                        ch = self._ifs.read(1)
                        cond = ((ch != '\n') and not(ch==FF and self._doFFs) and (ch != ''))
                        if not cond:
                            # See if this dude matches the pagebreak regexp
                            if self._pagebreakre and self._pagebreakre.search(linebuf.strip()):
                                pagebreak = True
                                
                            linebuf = ''
                            break
                        else:
                            linebuf = linebuf + ch

                        if ord(ch) >= 32 and ord(ch) <= 127:
                            if ch == '(' or ch == ')' or ch == '\\':
                                ws("\\")
                            ws(ch)
                        else:
                            if ord(ch) == 9:
                                padding =self._tab - ((charNo - 1) % self._tab)
                                for i in range(padding):
                                    ws(" ")
                                charNo += (padding -1)
                            else:
                                if ch != FF:
                                    # write \xxx form for dodgy character
                                    buf = "".join(('\\', ch))
                                    ws(buf)
                                else:
                                    # dont print anything for a FF
                                    charNo -= 1

                    ws(")'\n")
                    if ch == FF:
                        atFF=1
                    if lineNo == self._lines:
                        atBOP=1
                        
                    if atBOP:
                        pos=0
                        ch = self._ifs.read(1)
                        pos= self._ifs.tell()
                        if ch == FF:
                            ch = self._ifs.read(1)
                            pos=self._ifs.tell()
                        # python's EOF signature
                        if ch == '':
                            atEOF=1
                        else:
                            # push position back by one char
                            self._ifs.seek(pos-1)

                    elif atFF:
                        ch = self._ifs.read(1)
                        pos=self._ifs.tell()
                        if ch == '':
                            atEOF=1
                        else:
                            self._ifs.seek(pos-1)

                if column < self._columns:
                    buf = "".join(("1 0 0 1 ",
                                   str((self._pageWd/2 + 25)),
                                   " ",
                                   str(self._pageHt - 40),
                                   " Tm\n"))
                    ws(buf)

            self.endpage(beginstream)

    def writerest(self):
        """Finish the file"""

        ws = self.writestr
        self._locations[3] = self._fpos
    
        ws("3 0 obj\n")
        ws("<<\n")
        ws("/Type /Pages\n")
        buf = "".join(("/Count ", str(self._pageNo), "\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join(("/MediaBox [ 0 0 ", str(self._pageWd), " ", str(self._pageHt), " ]\n"))
        ws(buf)
        ws("/Kids [ ")
    
        for i in range(1, self._pageNo+1):
            buf = "".join((str(self._pageObs[i]), " 0 R "))
            ws(buf)

        ws("]\n")
        ws(">>\n")
        ws("endobj\n")
        
        xref = self._fpos
        ws("xref\n")
        buf = "".join(("0 ", str((self._curobj) + 1), "\n"))
        ws(buf)
        buf = "".join(("0000000000 65535 f ", str(LINE_END)))
        ws(buf)

        for i in range(1, self._curobj + 1):
            val = self._locations[i]
            buf = "".join((string.zfill(str(val), 10), " 00000 n ", str(LINE_END)))
            ws(buf)

        ws("trailer\n")
        ws("<<\n")
        buf = "".join(("/Size ", str(self._curobj + 1), "\n"))
        ws(buf)
        ws("/Root 2 0 R\n")
        ws("/Info 1 0 R\n")
        ws(">>\n")
        
        ws("startxref\n")
        buf = "".join((str(xref), "\n"))
        ws(buf)
        ws("%%EOF\n")
        

def main():
    
    pdfclass=PyText2Pdf()
    pdfclass.parse_args()
    pdfclass.convert()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

This one is a modification of a previous recipe which provided a pure Python text to PDF converter.

This version modifies argument parsing using optparse and provides a few additional options to add subject, author, keywords etc. There is also an option to provide arbitrary page breaks using regular expressions. This is useful to convert documents such as RFCs to PDF.

Example...

$text2pdf.py rfc_3917.txt -S "Netflow RFC" -A "Quittek, et al." -K netflow,rfc,networking,ipfix -R "[Page\s+\d+]"

2 comments

Charles Kellum 16 years, 5 months ago  # | flag

Worked turn-key for me. two minutes later, I have a solution for creating PDF files for my output from network ip scans. Thanks

shiva 8 years, 10 months ago  # | flag

This is awesome, working like a charm .....................thanks Anand. I wish to use your code for a project i'm up to.