http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/formats-commandline-numbers/2016-10-26T17:49:00-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-11-22T22:15:25-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579128-convert-microsot-excel-xlsx-to-pdf-with-python-and/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579128 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/excel/">excel</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/openpyxl/">openpyxl</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xlsx/">xlsx</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how the basics of to convert the text data in a Microsoft Excel file (XLSX format) to PDF (Portable Document Format). It uses openpyxl to read the XLSX file and xtopdf to generate the PDF file.</p>

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/

<p style="color: grey"> 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>). </p> <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>

2016-09-29T18:04:57-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580704-put-peewee-orm-data-to-pdf-with-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580704 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/converter/">converter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/orm/">orm</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/peewee/">peewee</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python2/">python2</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sqlite/">sqlite</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how some basics of how to fetch data from database tables managed by the Peewee ORM (a lightweight expressive ORM for Python) and write that data, formatted, to a PDF file. The recipe uses Python, the Peewee ORM and the xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation.</p>

2010-01-09T22:46:42-08:00Karl Dickmanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172760/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576996-rfc-822-style-parser/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576996 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172760/">Karl Dickman</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/formats/">formats</a>). Revision 7. </p> <p>In <em>The Art of Unix Programming</em>, Eric S. Raymond describes a data file metaformat based on RFC 822. [http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch05s02.html#id2902039] This is a simple parser for that format.</p>