Difference between revisions of "Portable Document Format"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format | ||
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| + | * 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 == | == Free software tools that work with PDF == | ||
| + | Thanks to the [[Ghostscript]] project, there are many free software tools that work with postscript. | ||
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* pdftk | * pdftk | ||
* poppler | * poppler | ||
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* [http://www.reportlab.com/opensource/ reportlab] | * [http://www.reportlab.com/opensource/ reportlab] | ||
* [https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 pyPDF2] | * [https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 pyPDF2] | ||
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| + | == Examples == | ||
| + | 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 | ||
| + | c = canvas.Canvas('ex.pdf') | ||
| + | c.drawImage('ar.jpg', 0, 0, 10*cm, 10*cm) | ||
| + | c.showPage() | ||
| + | c.save() | ||
| + | </source> | ||
Latest revision as of 16:06, 1 November 2020
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
- 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
Contents
Free software tools that work with PDF
Thanks to the Ghostscript project, there are many free software tools that work with postscript.
- pdftk
- poppler
- Scribus
- Imagemagick
Cookbook
apt-get install poppler-utils
pdftocairo -png mydoc.pdf
Creates a series of PNG files.
Python tools to manipulate / generate PDF
Examples
An example using reportlab (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2252726/how-to-create-pdf-files-in-python)
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()
