Portable Document Format: Difference between revisions

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A proprietary format owned by Adobe until 2008, when it was released and relicensed as an ISO standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

Readings

PDF, Ghostscript, Postscript

...

F/LOSS tools to make PDFs

Thanks to the Ghostscript project, there are many free software tools that work with postscript and PDF.

Canvas based (GUI)

PDF manipulating/editing tools

pdftk (the PDF toolkit) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
pdfimages (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdfimages.1.en.html
pdfunite (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdfunite.1.en.html
pdftotext (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.en.html
pdfinfo (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdfinfo.1.en.html
pdffonts (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdffonts.1.en.html

Examples

One-liners

$ pandoc -f markdown --pdf-engine weasyprint -c stylesheet.css filename.md -o filename.pdf

$ weasyprint -s stylesheet.css filename.html filename.pdf

Reportlab

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.units import inch, cm
c = canvas.Canvas('ex.pdf')
c.drawImage('ar.jpg', 0, 0, 10*cm, 10*cm)
c.showPage()
c.save()

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+__TOC__
 A proprietary format owned by Adobe until 2008, when it was released and relicensed as an ISO standard.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
+== Readings==
 * https://www.vice.com/en/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format
 * https://planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/warnock_camelot.pdf
-== Free software tools that work with PDF ==
+== PDF, Ghostscript, Postscript ==
-Thanks to the [[Ghostscript]] project, there are many free software tools that work with postscript.
+...
+== F/LOSS tools to make PDFs ==
+Thanks to the [[Ghostscript]] project, there are many free software tools that work with postscript and PDF.
+===Canvas based (GUI)===
+* [[Scribus]] https://www.scribus.net/
+* Laidout https://laidout.org/
+* Inkscape https://inkscape.org/
+===Web based (web-to-print)===
+* your browser (use CTRL+P or CMD+P)
+* Weasyprint https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/
+* Paged.js https://www.pagedjs.org/
+* wkhtmltopdf https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
+===Python===
+* Reportlab https://www.reportlab.com/
+* Flat http://xxyxyz.org/flat/
+* pyPDF2 https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2
+===LaTeX based===
+* LaTeX https://www.latex-project.org/
+* ConTeXt  https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
+===Misc===
-* pdftk
-* poppler
-* [[Scribus]]
 * [[Imagemagick]]
-== Cookbook ==
+==PDF manipulating/editing tools==
+* pdftk (the PDF toolkit) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
+* pdfimages (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdfimages.1.en.html
+* pdfunite (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdfunite.1.en.html
+* pdftotext (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.en.html
+* pdfinfo (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdfinfo.1.en.html
+* pdffonts (part of poppler-utils) https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdffonts.1.en.html
+==Examples==
- apt-get install poppler-utils
+===One-liners===
-  pdftocairo -png mydoc.pdf
+  $ pandoc -f markdown --pdf-engine weasyprint -c stylesheet.css filename.md -o filename.pdf
-Creates a series of [[PNG]] files.
+ $ weasyprint -s stylesheet.css filename.html filename.pdf
-== Python tools to manipulate / generate PDF ==
+===Reportlab===
-* [http://xxyxyz.org/flat/ flat]
-* [http://www.reportlab.com/opensource/ reportlab]
-* [https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 pyPDF2]
-== Examples ==
+<syntaxhighlight lang="python">
-An example using reportlab (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2252726/how-to-create-pdf-files-in-python)
-<source lang="python">
 from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
 from reportlab.lib.units import inch, cm
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 c.showPage()
 c.save()
-</source>
+</syntaxhighlight>
+[[Category:PagedMedia]]
+[[Category:Cookbook]]