http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/xtopdf-pdf_generation-python/2015-02-24T22:08:11-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-02-24T22:08:11-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579027-publish-sqlite-data-to-pdf-using-named-tuples/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579027 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sql/">sql</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sqlite/">sqlite</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sqlite3/">sqlite3</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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.</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>

2015-01-24T21:21:27-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579012-use-prettytable-and-xtopdf-to-create-pdf-tables-wi/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579012 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/data/">data</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/prettytable/">prettytable</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/string/">string</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tabular/">tabular</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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.</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>

2013-12-22T22:19:00-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578794-create-pdf-at-the-end-of-a-unix-pipeline-with-pdfw/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578794 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/commandline/">commandline</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pipelining/">pipelining</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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).</p>

2013-06-16T19:14:58-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578561-xml-to-pdf-book-with-elementtree-and-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578561 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ebooks/">ebooks</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/elementtree/">elementtree</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/publishing/">publishing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xml/">xml</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Create an XML template file like this:</p> <p>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;book&gt; &lt;chapter&gt; Chapter 1 content here. &lt;/chapter&gt;</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code> &lt;chapter&gt; Chapter 2 content here. &lt;/chapter&gt; </code></pre> <p>&lt;/book&gt;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Then run:</p> <p>python XMLtoPDFBook.py your_book.xml your_book.pdf</p> <p>Now the contents of your book will be in your_book.pdf</p> <p>More details and the full code here:</p> <p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/06/create-pdf-books-with-xmltopdfbook.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/06/create-pdf-books-with-xmltopdfbook.html</a></p> <ul> <li>Vasudev Ram <a href="http://dancingbison.com" rel="nofollow">dancingbison.com</a></li> </ul>