Popular recipes tagged "xtopdf" but not "pdf_generation" and "reportlab"

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.

Batch conversion of text files to PDF with fileinput and xtopdf (Python)

2016-11-07T20:28:01-08:00

Python recipe 580715 by Vasudev Ram (batch, batchmode, conversion, files, pdf, pdfwriter, python, text, text_processing, utilities, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to do a batch conversion of the content of multiple text files into a single PDF file, with a) an automatic page break after the content of each text file (in the PDF output), b) page numbering, and c) a header and footer on each page.

It uses the fileinput module (part of the Python standard library), and xtopdf, a Python library for conversion of other formats to PDF.

xtopdf is available here: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

and a guide to installing and using xtopdf is here:

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

Here is a sample run of the program:

python BTTP123.pdf text1.txt text2.txt text3.txt

This will read the content from the three text files specified and write it into the PDF file specified, neatly formatted.

Publish Firebird SQL data to PDF with xtopdf (Python)

2015-12-01T19:45:18-08:00

Python recipe 579131 by Vasudev Ram (database, firebird, pdfwriter, python, sql, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to publish data from the Firebird RDBMS to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit and the fbd Python driver for Firebird. Firebird is a cross-platform, open source RDBMS based on the former Interbase RDBMS from Borland, which they used to bundle with some of their developmemt tools, such as Borland C++ and Borland Delphi.

The recipe reads data from a Firebird table, using the fbd Python driver for Firebird, and writes it to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit. See:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/xtopdf-pdf-creation-library.html

for information on xtopdf.

It assumes that a Firebird database called test.fdb exists under /temp/firebird (C:\temp\firebird, really - the test was done on Windows), and that it has a contacts table with the structure shown in the code of the recipe.

More details and sample output are here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/01/by-vasudev-ram-pdf-firebird-is-cross.html

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.

Publish databases to PDF with PyDAL (a Python DB library) and xtopdf (Python)

2015-01-15T16:09:27-08:00

Python recipe 579004 by Vasudev Ram (database, pdf, pydal, python, python_developer_tools, sql, web2py, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to use the PyDAL database library for Python, together with xtopdf, a PDF creation library for Python, to publish database data to PDF. PyDAL was earlier a part of the web2py Python web framework, and then was split out into a separate library that does not need to be used with web2py. It supports access to many popular relational databases, both open source and proprietary.

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.

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.

Publish Berkeley DB data to PDF with xtopdf (Python)

2014-01-24T17:57:21-08:00

Python recipe 578814 by Vasudev Ram (bsddb, database, pdf, python, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to convert the data stored in a Berkeley DB database to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation. It should work on either Linux/Unix or Windows.

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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