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

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).

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).

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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