Popular recipes tagged "meta:requires=__future__" and "pdf_generation"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/meta:requires=__future__+pdf_generation/2016-12-17T19:08:33-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes[xtopdf] Publish Delimiter-Separated Values (DSV data) to PDF (Python)
2016-12-17T19:08:33-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580736-xtopdf-publish-delimiter-separated-values-dsv-data/
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Python
recipe 580736
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/commandline/">commandline</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/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tsv/">tsv</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 publish delimiter-separated values (a commonly used tabular data format) to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation. It lets the user specify the delimiter via one of two command-line options - an ASCII code or an ASCII character. As Unix filters tend to do, it can operate either on standard input or on input filenames given as command-line arguments. In the case of multiple inputs via files, each input goes to a separate PDF output file.</p>
Convert 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>
Generate a PDF cheat sheet for converting 0 to 255 between bin / oct / dec / hex (Python)
2016-10-10T20:40:48-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580706-generate-a-pdf-cheat-sheet-for-converting-0-to-255/
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Python
recipe 580706
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/binary/">binary</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/decimal/">decimal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/hexadecimal/">hexadecimal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/octal/">octal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utility/">utility</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>).
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<p>This recipe shows how to generate a PDF cheat sheet, that contains a table for conversion of the numbers 0 to 255 (the numbers that can fit in one byte) between binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal representations. The table has four columns, one for each of those bases, and 256 rows, for the numbers 0 to 255.</p>
<p>TO use the table, you can look for a number, say in decimal, in the Dec(imal) column (or use the search function of your PDF viewer), then when you find it in some row, just look at the other 3 columns in that row, to find the value of that number in binary, octal and hexadecimal. And use the same procedure if starting with a number in any of the other three bases.</p>
Create PDF control break reports with itertools.groupby and xtopdf (Python)
2016-07-23T22:17:29-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580692-create-pdf-control-break-reports-with-itertoolsgro/
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Python
recipe 580692
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/control/">control</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/grouping/">grouping</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/iterators/">iterators</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/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sql/">sql</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>).
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<p>This recipe shows how to create the classic control break style of report (a staple of data processing) using Python along with the groupby function from the itertools module, and xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation.</p>