How to create PDF files in Python

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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

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fpdf is python  too   And often used  See PyPI   pip search  But maybe it was renamed from pyfpdf to fpdf  From features  PNG  GIF and JPG support  including transparency and alpha channel

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I use rst2pdf to create a pdf file  since I am more familiar with RST than with HTML  It supports embedding almost any kind of raster or vector images   It requires reportlab  but I found reportlab is not so straight forward to use  at least for me

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You can actually try xhtml2pdf http   flask pocoo org snippets 68

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

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Here is my experience after following the hints on this page    pyPDF can t embed images into files  It can only split and merge   Source  Ctrl F through its documentation page  Which is great  but not if you have images that are not already embedded in a PDF  pyPDF2 doesn t seem to have any extra documentation on top of pyPDF  ReportLab is very extensive   Userguide  However  with a bit of Ctrl F and grepping through its source  I got this    First  download the Windows installer and source Then try this on Python command line   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       All I needed is to get a bunch of images into a PDF  so that I can check how they look and print them  The above is sufficient to achieve that goal   ReportLab is great  but would benefit from including helloworlds like the above prominently in its documentation

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You can try this Python-for-PDF-Generation  or you can try PyQt  which has support for printing to pdf   Python for PDF Generation The Portable Document Format  PDF  lets you create documents that look exactly the same on every platform  Sometimes a PDF document needs to be generated dynamically  however  and that can be quite a challenge  Fortunately  there are libraries that can help  This article examines one of those for Python   Read more at http   www devshed com c a Python Python-for-PDF-Generation  whoCFCPh3TAks368 99

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fpdf works well for me  Much simpler than ReportLab and really free  Works with UTF-8

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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

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rinohtype supports embedding PDF  PNG and JPEG images  natively  and other bitmap formats  when Pillow is installed     Full disclosure  I am the author of rinohtype

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I suggest Pdfkit   installation guide   It creates pdf from html files  I chose it to create pdf in 2 steps from my Python Pyramid stack    Rendering server-side with mako templates with the style and markup you want for you pdf document Executing pdfkit from string      method by passing the rendered html as parameter   This way you get a pdf document with styling and images supported   You can install it as follows      using pip  pip install pdfkit You will also need to install wkhtmltopdf  on Ubuntu

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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

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Here is a solution that works with only the standard packages  matplotlib has a PDF backend to save figures to PDF  You can create a figures with subplots  where each subplot is one of your images  You have full freedom to mess with the figure  Adding titles  play with position  etc  Once your figure is done  save to PDF  Each call to savefig will create another page of PDF   Example below plots 2 images side-by-side  on page 1 and page 2   from matplotlib backends backend pdf import PdfPages import matplotlib pyplot as plt from scipy misc import imread import os import numpy as np  files      Column0 Line16 jpg    Column0 Line47 jpg    def plotImage f       folder    C  temp       im   imread os path join folder  f   astype np float32    255     plt imshow im      a   plt gca       a get xaxis   set visible False    We don t need axis ticks     a get yaxis   set visible False   pp   PdfPages  c  temp page1 pdf   plt subplot 121  plotImage files 0   plt subplot 122  plotImage files 1   pp savefig plt gcf      This generates page 1 pp savefig plt gcf      This generates page 2 pp close

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I believe that matplotlib has the ability to serialize graphics  text and other objects to a pdf document

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If you are familiar with LaTex you might want to consider pylatex  One of the advantages of pylatex is that it is easy to control the image quality  The images in your pdf will be of the same quality as the original images  When using reportlab  I experienced that the images were automatically compressed  and the image quality reduced    The disadvantage of pylatex is that  since it is based on LaTex  it can be hard to place images exactly where you want on the page  However  I have found that using the position argument in the Figure class  and sometimes Subfigure  gives good enough results   Example code for creating a pdf with a single image   from pylatex import Document  Figure  doc   Document documentclass  article   with doc create Figure position  p    as fig  fig add image  Lenna png    doc generate pdf  test   compiler  latexmk   compiler args   -pdf    -pdflatex pdflatex    clean tex True    In addition to installing pylatex  pip install pylatex   you need to install LaTex  For Ubuntu and other Debian systems you can run sudo apt-get install texlive-full  If you are using Windows I would recommend MixTex

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