Popular recipes tagged "pdf" but not "pymupdf" and "python"

Insert a Text Box in a PDF page (fitz / PyMuPDF) (Python)

2017-06-29T22:54:25-07:00

Python recipe 580809 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, textbox).

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.

Inserting pages into a PDF with PyMuPDF (Python)

2017-05-17T21:15:26-07:00

Python recipe 580802 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, text_conversion). Revision 2.

Version 1.11.0 of PyMuPDF allows creating new PDF pages, as well as inserting images into existing pages.

Here is a script that converts any textfile into a PDF.

How to Maintain PDF Links with fitz / PyMuPDF (Python)

2017-03-22T13:12:25-07:00

Python recipe 580765 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, link, mupdf, pdf).

This REPL script example displays, updates, inserts and deletes links on a PDF page.

Convert wildcard text files to PDF with xtopdf (e.g. report*.txt) (Python)

2016-12-06T20:37:30-08:00

Python recipe 580727 by Vasudev Ram (conversion, files, globbing, patterns, pdf, pdfwriter, pdf_generation, text_processing, wildcard, xtopdf).

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.txt as the wildcard, all files in the current directory that match report.txt, will be converted to PDF, each in a separate PDF file. The original text files are not changed.

Here is a guide to installing and using xtopdf:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html

More details on running the program, and sample output, are available here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/xtopdf-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with.html

How to delete pages in a PDF using fitz / MuPDF / PyMuPDF (Python)

2016-05-01T09:26:44-07:00

Python recipe 580657 by Jorj X. McKie (mupdf, pdf, pdf_generation).

A new method select() in PyMuPDF 1.9.0 allows selecting pages of a PDF document to create a new one. Any Python list of integers (0 <= n < page count) can be taken.

The resulting PDF contains all links, annotations and bookmarks (provided they still point to valid targets).

Extract images of a PDF - optionally by page using PyMuPDF / fitz (Python)

2016-09-28T12:03:59-07:00

Python recipe 580703 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, pdf, png).

Two small scripts to extract images contained in a PDF document as PNG files. (1) Script 1 extracts all images (2) Script 2 extracts only images that are referenced by a page

Read CSV with D and write it to PDF with Python (Python)

2016-10-26T17:49:00-07:00

Python recipe 580710 by Vasudev Ram (conversion, csv, data, files, formats, pdf, pdf_generation, xtopdf).

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).

It requires the xtopdf toolkit, which you can get from:

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

Instructions for installing xtopdf:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html

xtopdf in turn requires the open source version of the ReportLab toolkit, which you can get from:

http://www.reportlab.com/ftp (http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-1.21.1.tar.gz)

It also requires the DMD compiler to compile the D program - this was the version used:

DMD32 D Compiler v2.071.2

CSV export / import of PDF bookmarks (table of contents) (Python)

2017-01-07T12:21:39-08:00

Python recipe 580743 by Jorj X. McKie (bookmarks, csv, fitz, mupdf, pdf).

Two little utilities to export or import a PDF's table of contents from / to a standard CSV file. Typical usecase would be:

export TOC to CSV file
edit CSV file
import TOC from CSV file

Access PDF annotations (Python)

2016-12-13T11:06:14-08:00

Python recipe 580732 by Jorj X. McKie (annotation, fitz, mupdf, pdf).

Version 1.10.0 of PyMuPDF supports PDF annotations. Among other things they can be extracted as images and also updated to some extent.

Reverse the sequence of annotations on a PDF page (Python)

2017-01-22T14:02:16-08:00

Python recipe 580733 by Jorj X. McKie (annotation, fitz, mupdf, pdf). Revision 2.

Just another demonstration of PyMuPDF's features to deal with annotations:

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.

The annotation images are enlarged or compressed as required to fit into their new areas.

Convert from Html To Pdf in ASP.NET MVC C# with SelectPdf Free Community Edition (C++)

2016-11-17T15:01:12-08:00

C++ recipe 580719 by SelectPdf (aspnet, mvc, pdf, selectpdf).

It’s very easy to use SelectPdf SDK for .NET in ASP.NET MVC applications. Take a look at the simple code below.

Decrypt a PDF using fitz / MuPDF (PyMuPDF) (Python)

2016-03-17T12:22:10-07:00

Python recipe 580627 by Harald Lieder (decompression, decryption, pdf, repair).

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.

Find all fonts used in a PDF document by page (Python)

2016-08-26T00:02:48-07:00

Python recipe 580651 by Jorj X. McKie (pdf). Revision 3.

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.

How to use Python to convert a web page to PDF with a POST request to SelectPdf Online API and save it on the disk (Python)

2015-11-16T14:52:17-08:00

Python recipe 579126 by SelectPdf (api, converter, htmltopdf, pdf, selectpdf).

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.

Roll your own Postscript code from scratch (Python)

2015-12-09T23:30:13-08:00

Python recipe 579136 by Jack Trainor (ghostscript, pdf, postscript, ps).

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.

Recipe does not use any Python PDF libraries. However, Ghostscript and a PDF viewer are useful for displaying/debugging output.

It's easier than you might think to roll your own Postscript code!

Printing an ASCII table to PDF (Python)

2015-04-02T18:38:04-07:00

Python recipe 579043 by Vasudev Ram (ascii, pdf, pdf_generation, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to print part of an ASCII table to PDF. It shows it for the first 32 ASCII characters, the control characters, i.e. the characters with ASCII codes 0 to 31. The same logic can be extended to print the remaining ASCII characters, either upto code 127 or 255, depending on your definition of ASCII, and also on whether your PDF font supports printing all those characters.

Publish SQLite data to PDF using named tuples (Python)

2015-02-24T22:08:11-08:00

Python recipe 579027 by Vasudev Ram (conversion, pdf, pdfwriter, sql, sqlite, sqlite3, xtopdf).

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.

Convert Excel to PDF with xlwings and xtopdf (Python)

2015-02-22T10:42:18-08:00

Python recipe 579026 by Vasudev Ram (excel, pdf, pdfwriter, reportlab, xlwings, xtopdf).

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.

Use PrettyTable and xtopdf to create PDF tables with borders, alignment and padding (Python)

2015-01-24T21:21:27-08:00

Python recipe 579012 by Vasudev Ram (data, pdf, prettytable, string, tabular, xtopdf).

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.

Convert HTML to PDF with the PDFcrowd API (Python)

2015-03-07T20:22:54-08:00

Python recipe 579032 by Vasudev Ram (api, html, pdf, pdfcrowd).

This recipe shows how to use Python and the PDFcrowd API to convert HTML content to PDF. The HTML input can come from a remote URL, a local HTML file, or a string containing HTML.