http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/pdf-pymupdf-xtopdf/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>

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>

2016-05-01T09:26:44-07:00Jorj X. McKiehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4193772/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580657-how-to-delete-pages-in-a-pdf-using-fitz-mupdf-pymu/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580657 by <a href="/recipes/users/4193772/">Jorj X. McKie</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/mupdf/">mupdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>). </p> <p>A new method <strong>select()</strong> in PyMuPDF 1.9.0 allows selecting pages of a PDF document to create a new one. Any Python list of integers (0 &lt;= n &lt; page count) can be taken.</p> <p>The resulting PDF contains all links, annotations and bookmarks (provided they still point to valid targets).</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>

2015-12-27T20:45:32-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579142-publish-a-windows-process-list-to-pdf-with-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Batch recipe 579142 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</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/processes/">processes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/process_management/">process_management</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/windows/">windows</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how you can generate a Windows process list or task list (basically, a list of running processes, with some information about each of them), to a PDF file, using the Windows TASKLIST command along with the xtopdf toolkit. The list is sorted in ascending order of memory usage of the processes, before writing it to PDF.</p> <p>It differs somewhat from other xtopdf recipes, in that no additional code needs to be written, over and above what is already in the xtopdf package. We just have to use the needed commands there, in a series of commands or a pipeline.</p> <p>However, one can still write additional code, by modifying the program used (StdinToPDF.py), if needed, to customize the PDF output.</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>

2016-01-07T18:02:52-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579146-python-controlled-unix-pipeline-to-generate-pdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579146 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pipe/">pipe</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pipelining/">pipelining</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python2/">python2</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to create a Unix pipeline that generates PDF output, under the control of a Python program. It is tested on Linux. It uses nl, a standard Linux command that adds line numbers to its input, and selpg, a custom Linux command-line utility, that selects only specified pages from its input, together in a pipeline (nl | selpg). The Python program sets up and starts that pipeline running, and then reads input from it and generates PDF output.</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>

2014-03-31T18:39:16-07:00Fabian Mayerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4189629/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578858-convert-doc-and-docx-files-to-pdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578858 by <a href="/recipes/users/4189629/">Fabian Mayer</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/doc/">doc</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/win32com/">win32com</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>The Script converts all doc and docx files in a specified folder to pdf files. It checks whether the provided absolute path does actually exist and whether the specified folder contains any doc and docx files. It does not travers the directory recursively. The script is not portable and runs only a Windows machine. Based on the experience I made, I recommend closing MS Word before running the script.</p>

2015-03-07T20:22:54-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579032-convert-html-to-pdf-with-the-pdfcrowd-api/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579032 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/api/">api</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/html/">html</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfcrowd/">pdfcrowd</a>). </p> <p>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.</p>

2014-10-29T17:38:10-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578954-print-selected-text-pages-to-pdf-with-python-selpg/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 578954 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/bash/">bash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/shell/">shell</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_files/">text_files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_processing/">text_processing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to use selpg, a Linux command-line utility written in C, together with xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation, to print only a selected range of pages from a text file, to a PDF file, for display or print purposes. The way to do this is to run the selpg utility at the Linux command line, with options specifying the start and end pages of the range, and pipe its output to the StdinToPDF.py program, which is a part of the xtopdf toolkit.</p>

2014-12-03T21:27:54-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578974-serve-pdf-with-netius-a-pure-python-network-librar/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578974 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/client/">client</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/client_server/">client_server</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/networking/">networking</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/server/">server</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to serve PDF from a server written using Netius, a pure-Python library, together with xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation. It is a proof-of-concept recipe, to show the essentials needed for the task, so it hard-codes the text content that is served as PDF, but the concepts shown can easily be extended to serve dynamically generated PDF content.</p>