http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/batchmode-key/2016-11-07T20:28:01-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2016-11-07T20:28:01-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580715-batch-conversion-of-text-files-to-pdf-with-fileinp/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580715 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/batch/">batch</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/batchmode/">batchmode</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_processing/">text_processing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utilities/">utilities</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to do a batch conversion of the content of multiple text files into a single PDF file, with a) an automatic page break after the content of each text file (in the PDF output), b) page numbering, and c) a header and footer on each page.</p> <p>It uses the fileinput module (part of the Python standard library), and xtopdf, a Python library for conversion of other formats to PDF.</p> <p>xtopdf is available here: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf</a></p> <p>and a guide to installing and using xtopdf is here:</p> <p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html</a></p> <p>Here is a sample run of the program:</p> <p>python BTTP123.pdf text1.txt text2.txt text3.txt</p> <p>This will read the content from the three text files specified and write it into the PDF file specified, neatly formatted.</p>