Popular recipes tagged "conversion", "files" and "pdf"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/conversion+files+pdf/2016-12-06T20:37:30-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesConvert wildcard text files to PDF with xtopdf (e.g. report*.txt) (Python)
2016-12-06T20:37:30-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580727-convert-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with-xtopdf-eg-/
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Python
recipe 580727
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/globbing/">globbing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/patterns/">patterns</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_processing/">text_processing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/wildcard/">wildcard</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>).
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<p>This recipe shows how to convert all text files matching a filename wildcard to PDF, using the xtopdf PDF creation toolkit. For example, if you specify report<em>.txt as the wildcard, all files in the current directory that match report</em>.txt, will be converted to PDF, each in a separate PDF file. The original text files are not changed.</p>
<p>Here is a guide to installing and using xtopdf:</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>More details on running the program, and sample output, are available here:</p>
<p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/xtopdf-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/xtopdf-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with.html</a></p>
Batch conversion of text files to PDF with fileinput and xtopdf (Python)
2016-11-07T20:28:01-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580715-batch-conversion-of-text-files-to-pdf-with-fileinp/
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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>).
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<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>
Read CSV with D and write it to PDF with Python (Python)
2016-10-26T17:49:00-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580710-read-csv-with-d-and-write-it-to-pdf-with-python/
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Python
recipe 580710
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/csv/">csv</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>).
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<p>This recipe shows how to read data from a CSV file with a D program and write that data to a PDF file with a Python program - all in a single command-line invocation (after writing the individual programs, of course).</p>
<p>It requires the xtopdf toolkit, which you can get from:</p>
<p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf</a></p>
<p>Instructions for installing xtopdf:</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>xtopdf in turn requires the open source version of the ReportLab toolkit, which you can get from:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reportlab.com/ftp" rel="nofollow">http://www.reportlab.com/ftp</a> (<a href="http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-1.21.1.tar.gz%29" rel="nofollow">http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-1.21.1.tar.gz)</a></p>
<p>It also requires the DMD compiler to compile the D program - this was the version used:</p>
<p>DMD32 D Compiler v2.071.2</p>