Popular recipes tagged "xtopdf" but not "database" and "pdfwriter"

Convert Microsot Excel (XLSX) to PDF with Python and xtopdf (Python)

2015-11-22T22:15:25-08:00

Python recipe 579128 by Vasudev Ram (excel, formats, openpyxl, pdf, python, xlsx, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how the basics of to convert the text data in a Microsoft Excel file (XLSX format) to PDF (Portable Document Format). It uses openpyxl to read the XLSX file and xtopdf to generate the PDF 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.

Read CSV with D and write it to PDF with Python (Python)

2016-10-26T17:49:00-07:00

Python recipe 580710 by Vasudev Ram (conversion, csv, data, files, formats, pdf, pdf_generation, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to read data from a CSV file with a D program and write that data to a PDF file with a Python program - all in a single command-line invocation (after writing the individual programs, of course).

It requires the xtopdf toolkit, which you can get from:

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

Instructions for installing xtopdf:

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

xtopdf in turn requires the open source version of the ReportLab toolkit, which you can get from:

http://www.reportlab.com/ftp (http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-1.21.1.tar.gz)

It also requires the DMD compiler to compile the D program - this was the version used:

DMD32 D Compiler v2.071.2

Printing an ASCII table to PDF (Python)

2015-04-02T18:38:04-07:00

Python recipe 579043 by Vasudev Ram (ascii, pdf, pdf_generation, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to print part of an ASCII table to PDF. It shows it for the first 32 ASCII characters, the control characters, i.e. the characters with ASCII codes 0 to 31. The same logic can be extended to print the remaining ASCII characters, either upto code 127 or 255, depending on your definition of ASCII, and also on whether your PDF font supports printing all those characters.

Use PrettyTable and xtopdf to create PDF tables with borders, alignment and padding (Python)

2015-01-24T21:21:27-08:00

Python recipe 579012 by Vasudev Ram (data, pdf, prettytable, string, tabular, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create tabular data in PDF format, supporting neat borders, and alignment and padding of columns, using the Python libraries called PrettyTable and xtopdf.

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).

Convert Microsoft Word files to PDF with DOCXtoPDF (Python)

2013-12-24T23:03:43-08:00

Python recipe 578795 by Vasudev Ram (docx, microsoft, pdf, python, word, xtopdf).

Yhis recipe shows how to convert Microsoft Word .DOCX files to PDF format, using the python-docx library and my xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation.

Note: The recipe has some limitations. E.g. fonts, tables, etc. from the input DOCX file are not preserved in the output PDF file.

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).

XML to PDF book with ElementTree and xtopdf (Python)

2013-06-16T19:14:58-07:00

Python recipe 578561 by Vasudev Ram (ebooks, elementtree, pdf, publishing, xml, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to create a PDF book from XML text content. It requires my xtopdf toolkit, the ElementTree module (from Python's standard library) and the open source version of the ReportLab toolkit.

Create an XML template file like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <book> <chapter> Chapter 1 content here. </chapter>

    <chapter>
    Chapter 2 content here.
    </chapter>

</book>

Then populate the chapter elements with the text of each of the chapters of your book, as text. Call that file, your_book.xml, say.

Then run:

python XMLtoPDFBook.py your_book.xml your_book.pdf

Now the contents of your book will be in your_book.pdf

More details and the full code here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/06/create-pdf-books-with-xmltopdfbook.html

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