Python as PDF Editing and Processing Framework

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Python as PDF Editing and Processing Framework

I am looking for using Python as PDF Editing and Processing Framework.

Any suggestions? looking for an open source and well maintained library

http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ - it saw 4 years of development. What are you trying to do? Sometimes you can write PDF files using LaTeX.

Hamish Grubijan 2010-06-26 03:00:16

Thanks! I am looking to create PDF documents from database tables and other data.

demos 2010-06-26 03:05:13

I suggest Latex + Asymptote then ... generated from Python.

Hamish Grubijan 2010-06-26 03:20:27

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ReportLab will help you produce pdf's in python at least. Here's a tutorial

Tom Willis 2010-06-26 14:14:35

Although the documentation for "free" version of ReportLab is extremely skimpy (likely because the team wants you to buy the Pro version which probably comes with good examples) PerportLab will probably be much easier for you work with than Latex. Look specifically for Platypus module's Tables submodule (http://www.reportlab.com/apis/reportlab/2.4/platypus.html#module-reportlab.platypus.tables). It just does the ugly layout work for you.

ddotsenko 2010-06-26 17:17:40

You can look at using rst2pdf to produce pdfs from your data. rst2pdf provides an easy interface to use reportlab.

Raja 2010-06-27 12:13:39

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