Portable Document Format: Difference between revisions
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* [https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 pyPDF2] | * [https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 pyPDF2] | ||
== 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> | |||
Revision as of 09:54, 6 September 2016
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
Free software tools that work with PDF
- 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()