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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 JSON to PDF with Python and xtopdf (Python)

2014-12-10T18:02:14-08:00

Python recipe 578979 by Vasudev Ram (json, pdfwriter, sys).

This recipe show the basic steps needed to convert JSON input to PDF output, using Python and xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit. xtopdf is itself written in Pytho, and uses the ReportLab toolkit internally.

We set up some needed values, such as the output PDF file name, the font name and size, the header and footer, and the input lines for the body of the PDF output; all these values are passed in JSON format (in a single dictionary) to a function that uses those values to generate a PDF file with the desired content.

The code is intentionally kept simple so as to require the least amount of code needed to demonstrate the techniques involved. But it can be generalized or extended to more complex situations.

Functional D plus Python pipeline to generate PDF (Text)

2016-09-22T15:32:17-07:00

Text recipe 580701 by Vasudev Ram (pdfwriter, pdf_generation, pipe, pipeline, xtopdf).

This recipe is a command pipeline. The first component of the pipeline is a D language program that makes use of simple functional programming and template / generic programming features of D, to transform some input into the desired output. Both input and output are text. The D program writes the output to standard output, which is then read by a Python program that reads that as input via standard input, and converts it to PDF.

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.