How to create PDF files in Python

Question

Hi,

I'm working on a project which takes some images from user and then creates a PDF file which contains all of these images.

Is there any way or any tool to do this in Python? E.g. to create a PDF file (or eps, ps) from image1 + image 2 + image 3 -> PDF file?

Answer 1

See http://www.reportlab.com/

The toolkit is in Python (the opensource-link *)

Answer 2

You can try this or you can try PyQt, which has support for printing to pdf.

Answer 3

I suggest pyPdf. It works really nice. I also wrote a blog post some while ago, you can find it here. HTH.

Answer 4

It depends on what format your image files are in, but for a project here at work I used the tiff2pdf tool in LibTIFF from RemoteSensing.org. Basically just used subprocess to call tiff2pdf.exe with the appropriate argument to read the kind of tiff I had and output the kind of pdf I wanted. If they aren't tiffs you could probably convert them to tiffs using PIL, or maybe find a tool more specific to your image type (or more generic if the images will be diverse) like ReportLab mentioned above.

Answer 5

I have done this quite a bit in PyQt and it works very well. Qt has extensive support for images, fonts, styles, etc and all of those can be written out to pdf documents.