http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/pdf-pymupdf-pdf_generation/2017-06-29T22:54:25-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2017-06-29T22:54:25-07:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580809-insert-a-text-box-in-a-pdf-page-fitz-pymupdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580809 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/textbox/">textbox</a>). </p> <p>This method inserts text into a predefined rectangular area of a (new or existing) PDF page. Words are distributed across the available space, put on new lines when required etc. Line breaks and tab characters are respected / resolved. Text can be aligned in the box (left, center, right) and fonts can be freely chosen. The method returns a float indicating how vertical space is left over after filling the area.</p>

2015-11-22T22:15:25-08:00Vasudev 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>

2017-05-17T21:15:26-07:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580802-inserting-pages-into-a-pdf-with-pymupdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580802 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_conversion/">text_conversion</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Version 1.11.0 of PyMuPDF allows creating new PDF pages, as well as inserting images into existing pages.</p> <p>Here is a script that converts any textfile into a PDF.</p>

2017-03-22T13:12:25-07:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580765-how-to-maintain-pdf-links-with-fitz-pymupdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580765 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/link/">link</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>). </p> <p>This REPL script example displays, updates, inserts and deletes links on a PDF page.</p>

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/

<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>

2016-09-28T12:03:59-07:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580703-extract-images-of-a-pdf-optionally-by-page-using-p/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580703 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/png/">png</a>). </p> <p>Two small scripts to extract images contained in a PDF document as PNG files. (1) Script 1 extracts <strong>all</strong> images (2) Script 2 extracts only images that are referenced by a page</p>

2017-01-07T12:21:39-08:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580743-csv-export-import-of-pdf-bookmarks-table-of-conten/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580743 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/bookmarks/">bookmarks</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/csv/">csv</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>). </p> <p>Two little utilities to export or import a PDF's table of contents from / to a standard CSV file. Typical usecase would be:</p> <ol> <li>export TOC to CSV file</li> <li>edit CSV file</li> <li>import TOC from CSV file</li> </ol>

2016-12-13T11:06:14-08:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580732-access-pdf-annotations/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580732 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/annotation/">annotation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>). </p> <p>Version 1.10.0 of PyMuPDF supports PDF annotations. Among other things they can be extracted as images and also updated to some extent.</p>

2017-01-22T14:02:16-08:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580733-reverse-the-sequence-of-annotations-on-a-pdf-page/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580733 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/annotation/">annotation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/fitz/">fitz</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Just another demonstration of PyMuPDF's features to deal with annotations:</p> <p>Take a page with several annotations and let them change places in reverse order: first and last annot exchange their rectangles, second and second to last, etc.</p> <p>The annotation images are enlarged or compressed as required to fit into their new areas.</p>

2016-11-17T15:01:12-08:00SelectPdfhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193129/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580719-convert-from-html-to-pdf-in-aspnet-mvc-c-with-sele/

<p style="color: grey"> C++ recipe 580719 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193129/">SelectPdf</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/aspnet/">aspnet</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mvc/">mvc</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/selectpdf/">selectpdf</a>). </p> <p>It’s very easy to use SelectPdf SDK for .NET in ASP.NET MVC applications. Take a look at the simple code below.</p>

2016-03-17T12:22:10-07:00Harald Liederhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4191581/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580627-decrypt-a-pdf-using-fitz-mupdf-pymupdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580627 by <a href="/recipes/users/4191581/">Harald Lieder</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/decompression/">decompression</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/decryption/">decryption</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/repair/">repair</a>). </p> <p>It's more a code snippet. Shows how to dynamically check whether a PDF is password protected. If it is, decrypt it and save it back to disk un-encrypted.</p>

2016-08-26T00:02:48-07:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580651-find-all-fonts-used-in-a-pdf-document-by-page/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580651 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>Finds all fonts used in a PDF document by page. This new script is based on PyMuDF v1.9.2 and works for PDF files only. However, it is a lot simpler, speed has drastically improved and there is no dependency on other packages any more.</p>

2016-03-15T19:07:35-07:00Harald Liederhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4191581/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580622-pdf-joiner-splitter-using-wxpython-pymupdf-fitz-mu/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580622 by <a href="/recipes/users/4191581/">Harald Lieder</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/join/">join</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/split/">split</a>). </p> <p>Full featured PDF joiner. Join several PDF files into one output PDF. Page ranges can be specified as well as page orientation for each output page range. Tables of contents are intelligently preserved for each page range (can also be switched off). Output PDF metadata editable.</p>

2015-11-16T14:52:17-08:00SelectPdfhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193129/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579126-how-to-use-python-to-convert-a-web-page-to-pdf-wit/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579126 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193129/">SelectPdf</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/api/">api</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/converter/">converter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/htmltopdf/">htmltopdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/selectpdf/">selectpdf</a>). </p> <p>This code converts an url to pdf in Python using SelectPdf HTML To PDF REST API through a POST request. The parameters are JSON encoded. The content is saved into a file on the disk.</p>

2015-12-09T23:30:13-08:00Jack Trainorhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4076953/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579136-roll-your-own-postscript-code-from-scratch/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579136 by <a href="/recipes/users/4076953/">Jack Trainor</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ghostscript/">ghostscript</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/postscript/">postscript</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ps/">ps</a>). </p> <p>This recipe provides a mini-framework for creating custom Postscript PS and PDF files from scratch. It includes sample code for a personalized business index card.</p> <p>Recipe does not use any Python PDF libraries. However, Ghostscript and a PDF viewer are useful for displaying/debugging output.</p> <p>It's easier than you might think to roll your own Postscript code!</p>

2015-01-28T22:20:53-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579014-convert-html-text-to-pdf-with-beautiful-soup-and-x/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579014 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/format/">format</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/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to convert the text in an HTML document to PDF. It uses the Beautiful Soup and xtopdf Python libraries. Beautiful Soup is a library for HTML parsing and content extraction. xtopdf is a library for PDF creation from other formats, including text and many others.</p>

2015-02-24T22:08:11-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579027-publish-sqlite-data-to-pdf-using-named-tuples/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579027 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sql/">sql</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sqlite/">sqlite</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sqlite3/">sqlite3</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to publish SQLite data to PDF, using named tuples from the collections module of Python, the sqlite3 library, and the xtopdf library for PDF generation.</p>

2015-01-15T16:09:27-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579004-publish-databases-to-pdf-with-pydal-a-python-db-li/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579004 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pydal/">pydal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python_developer_tools/">python_developer_tools</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sql/">sql</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/web2py/">web2py</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to use the PyDAL database library for Python, together with xtopdf, a PDF creation library for Python, to publish database data to PDF. PyDAL was earlier a part of the web2py Python web framework, and then was split out into a separate library that does not need to be used with web2py. It supports access to many popular relational databases, both open source and proprietary.</p>

2015-02-22T10:42:18-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579026-convert-excel-to-pdf-with-xlwings-and-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579026 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/excel/">excel</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xlwings/">xlwings</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to get the text content from an Excel file and convert it to PDF, using the xlwings and xtopdf Python libraries. It also shows how to create an Excel file programmatically using xlwings.</p>

2015-01-24T21:21:27-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579012-use-prettytable-and-xtopdf-to-create-pdf-tables-wi/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579012 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/prettytable/">prettytable</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/string/">string</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tabular/">tabular</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to create tabular data in PDF format, supporting neat borders, and alignment and padding of columns, using the Python libraries called PrettyTable and xtopdf.</p>