Popular recipes tagged "reportlab"

Convert HTML text to PDF with Beautiful Soup and xtopdf (Python)

2015-01-28T22:20:53-08:00

Python recipe 579014 by Vasudev Ram (file, format, pdf, pdfwriter, python, reportgeneration, reporting, reportlab, xtopdf).

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.

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.

Create tabular PDF reports with xtopdf and tablib in Python (Python)

2014-12-25T17:48:53-08:00

Python recipe 578991 by Vasudev Ram (pdf, reportgeneration, reporting, reportlab, tablib, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create tabular PDF reports, i.e. PDF reports containing tabular data - rows and columns, using Python, xtopdf (a PDF creation library) and tablib (a Python library for manipulating tabular data).

Print selected text pages to PDF with Python, selpg and xtopdf on Linux (Bash)

2014-10-29T17:38:10-07:00

Bash recipe 578954 by Vasudev Ram (bash, linux, pdf, python, reportlab, shell, text, text_files, text_processing, unix).

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.

Use PDFWriter with context manager support (Python)

2013-12-16T21:43:27-08:00

Python recipe 578790 by Vasudev Ram (contextmanager, context_manager, pdf, python, reportlab, with_statement, xtopdf).

PDFWriter - a core class of the xtopdf toolkit - can now be used with a Python context manager, a.k.a. the Python with statement.

Code example below. More details here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/xtopdf-pdfwriter-now-has-context.html

Create simple PDF text calendars with xtopdf (Python)

2014-02-14T22:33:04-08:00

Python recipe 578832 by Vasudev Ram (calendar, pdf, python, reportlab, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create simple text calendars as PDF using xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation.

Create PDF at the end of a Unix pipeline with PDFWriter (Python)

2013-12-22T22:19:00-08:00

Python recipe 578794 by Vasudev Ram (commandline, linux, pdf, pipelining, reportlab, unix, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create PDF output at the end of a Unix or Linux pipeline, after all the text processing required, is done by previous components of the pipeline (which can use any of the standard tools of Unix such as sed, grep, awk, etc., as well as custom programs that act as filters).

A basic WSGI PDF server (Python)

2013-12-26T18:45:35-08:00

Python recipe 578798 by Vasudev Ram (pdf, python, reportlab, wsgi, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create a rudimentary Python WSGI server that can serve PDF. I had seen a post on the Python Reddit about how to create 'a basic WSGI server (aka "enough to make a website without using a framework")'. Thought of modifying it to serve PDF content (hard-ccded, though, not dynamic content, just as a basic example). This is the result. It's meant for learning, as was the original from which it was adapted, not for production use. It requires my xtopdf toolkit and the Reportlab toolkit, v1.21

Create a Table of Contents for an ebook with XMLtoPDFBook (Python)

2013-12-16T21:49:33-08:00

Python recipe 578791 by Vasudev Ram (ebooks, pdf, publishing, python, reportlab, xtopdf).

XMLtoPDFBook is a tool that allows you to create simple PDF ebooks from XML content. It is a part of the xtpodf toolkit.

You can now create PDF ebooks with XMLtoPDFBook, that include a Table of Contents (TOC).

OS2::UPM (undef) (Perl)

2012-09-30T19:25:20-07:00

Perl recipe 578273 by Roger Mbiama Assogo (bug, reportlab).

The CPAN Testers Family: Os: linux apache(kernel)

jpg2pdf (Python)

2011-07-17T19:49:58-07:00

Python recipe 577798 by Sundar Srinivasan (image, jpeg, pdf, reportlab).

Program to convert JPEG to PDF. Technically it just embeds the JPEG in a landscape US letter size PDF page. When you might need it?: When you have to scan a document and do not have scanner handy, you can take a photograph of the document with webcam, and embed the JPEG into PDF - effectively works as a scanner.

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.