Top-rated recipes tagged "pdf"

Improved ReportLab recipe for "page x of y" (Python)

2009-07-06T10:03:28-07:00

Python recipe 576832 by Vinay Sajip (pdf, reportlab). Revision 2.

This recipe is based on Recipe 546511 which does not work reliably if there are images in the content.

How to handle PDF embedded files with PyMuPDF (Python)

2017-07-11T18:57:54-07:00

Python recipe 580796 by Jorj X. McKie (embedded_files, fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf). Revision 3.

Version 1.11.0 (based on MuPDF v1.11) allows exporting, importing and interrogating files embedded in a PDF.

PDF "/EmbeddedFiles" are similar to ZIP archives (or the Microsoft OLE technique), allowing arbitrary data to be incorporated in a PDF and benefit from its unique features.

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

Convert doc and docx files to pdf (Python)

2014-03-31T18:39:16-07:00

Python recipe 578858 by Fabian Mayer (doc, pdf, python, win32com). Revision 2.

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.

wxPython PDF Viewer using Poppler (Python)

2010-04-15T17:43:27-07:00

Python recipe 577195 by Marcelo Fernández (pdf, poppler, python_poppler, viewer, wxpython).

This example shows a PDF Viewer class, which handles things like Zoom and Scrolling. It requires python-poppler and wxPython >= 2.8.9.

PDF a Directory of Images using Reportlab (Python)

2009-04-12T08:35:10-07:00

Python recipe 576717 by andrew.canit (directory, images, pdf).

Walk through a directory PDFing Images

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.

How to Create a PDF with a Caustic Drawing (Python)

2017-06-18T17:43:47-07:00

Python recipe 580806 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf).

Just a little demo on how to create simple drawings with PyMuPDF.

This script simulates what you see looking into your coffee mug, early in the morning after a long night of programming ...

Create Calendars on PDF with a few lines (Python)

2017-06-13T10:57:34-07:00

Python recipe 580805 by Jorj X. McKie (calendar, fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf). Revision 2.

PyMuPDF (fitz) provides easy to use ways to create PDF documents out of simple texts.

An example is the text output of Python's calendar module. Here we take a starting year as script parameter and output a 3-page (A4 landscape) document with calendars for this and the following two years - in less than 20 lines of code.

Inserting Images on PDF Pages (Python)

2017-05-17T21:10:26-07:00

Python recipe 580803 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf).

Version 1.11.0 of PyMuPDF allows putting an image on an existing PDF page. The following example puts the same image on every page of a given PDF - like a thumbnail.

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.

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

[xtopdf] Publish Delimiter-Separated Values (DSV data) to PDF (Python)

2016-12-17T19:08:33-08:00

Python recipe 580736 by Vasudev Ram (commandline, csv, data, files, formats, pdf, pdf_generation, python, tsv, utilities, xtopdf).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Batch conversion of text files to PDF with fileinput and xtopdf (Python)

2016-11-07T20:28:01-08:00

Python recipe 580715 by Vasudev Ram (batch, batchmode, conversion, files, pdf, pdfwriter, python, text, text_processing, utilities, xtopdf).

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.

It uses the fileinput module (part of the Python standard library), and xtopdf, a Python library for conversion of other formats to PDF.

xtopdf is available here: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

and a guide to installing and using xtopdf is here:

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

Here is a sample run of the program:

python BTTP123.pdf text1.txt text2.txt text3.txt

This will read the content from the three text files specified and write it into the PDF file specified, neatly formatted.

Rotate a PDF page in 3 lines (Python)

2016-11-06T11:33:59-08:00

Python recipe 580713 by Jorj X. McKie (fitz, mupdf, pdf, pymupdf). Revision 2.

PyMuPDF v1.9.3 now supports several new features for manipulating PDFs.

Here is an example to rotate a page with just a few lines of Python code.