http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/reportlab-unix/2015-02-22T10:42:18-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-01-28T22:20:53-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579014-convert-html-text-to-pdf-with-beautiful-soup-and-x/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579014 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/format/">format</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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.</p>

2015-02-22T10:42:18-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579026-convert-excel-to-pdf-with-xlwings-and-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579026 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/excel/">excel</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xlwings/">xlwings</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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.</p>

2014-12-25T17:48:53-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578991-create-tabular-pdf-reports-with-xtopdf-and-tablib-/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578991 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tablib/">tablib</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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). </p>

2013-12-16T21:43:27-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578790-use-pdfwriter-with-context-manager-support/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578790 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/contextmanager/">contextmanager</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/context_manager/">context_manager</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/with_statement/">with_statement</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>PDFWriter - a core class of the xtopdf toolkit - can now be used with a Python context manager, a.k.a. the Python <strong>with</strong> statement.</p> <p>Code example below. More details here:</p> <p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/xtopdf-pdfwriter-now-has-context.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/xtopdf-pdfwriter-now-has-context.html</a></p>

2014-02-14T22:33:04-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578832-create-simple-pdf-text-calendars-with-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578832 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/calendar/">calendar</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/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to create simple text calendars as PDF using xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation.</p>

2013-12-26T18:45:35-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578798-a-basic-wsgi-pdf-server/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578798 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</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/wsgi/">wsgi</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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</p>

2013-12-16T21:49:33-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578791-create-a-table-of-contents-for-an-ebook-with-xmlto/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578791 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ebooks/">ebooks</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/publishing/">publishing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>XMLtoPDFBook is a tool that allows you to create simple PDF ebooks from XML content. It is a part of the xtpodf toolkit.</p> <p>You can now create PDF ebooks with XMLtoPDFBook, that include a Table of Contents (TOC).</p>

2012-09-30T19:25:20-07:00Roger Mbiama Assogohttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4182949/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578273-os2upm-undef/

<p style="color: grey"> Perl recipe 578273 by <a href="/recipes/users/4182949/">Roger Mbiama Assogo</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/bug/">bug</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>). </p> <p>The CPAN Testers Family: Os: linux apache(kernel)</p>

2011-07-17T19:49:58-07:00Sundar Srinivasanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4177884/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577798-jpg2pdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577798 by <a href="/recipes/users/4177884/">Sundar Srinivasan</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/image/">image</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/jpeg/">jpeg</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>). </p> <p>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.</p>

2009-07-06T10:03:28-07:00Vinay Sajiphttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4034162/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576832-improved-reportlab-recipe-for-page-x-of-y/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576832 by <a href="/recipes/users/4034162/">Vinay Sajip</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This recipe is based on <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/546511/"><a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/546511/">Recipe 546511</a></a> which does not work reliably if there are images in the content.</p>