Patrick Maupin created a package he called pdfrw and released it back in 2012. The pdfrw package is a pure-Python library that you can use to read and write PDF files. At the time of writing, pdfrw was at version 0.4. With that version, it supports subsetting, merging, rotating and modifying data in PDFs. The […]
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ReportLab is the primary toolkit that I use for generating PDFs from scratch. However, I have found that there is another one called fpdf2. The fpdf2 package is actually a port of the “Free”-PDF package that was written in PHP. Note: PyFPDF is now dead. This article was originally written with that package in mind.
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This week we welcome Maria Camila Remolina Gutierrez (@holamariacamila) as our PyDev of the Week! Maria recently gave a talk at PyCon USA in their new PyCon Charlas track last month. You can learn more about Maria on her website or you can check out her Github profile to see what she has been doing
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Qt for Python (i.e. PySide2) was announced recently and got me interested in trying to use it to load up a UI file. If you don’t know, PyQt and PySide / PySide2 can use the Qt Creator application to create user interfaces using a drag-and-drop interface. This is actually very similar to the way you
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The ReportLab toolkit allows you to create interactive fillable forms. The PDF standard actually has a fairly rich set of interactive elements. ReportLab doesn’t support all of these elements, but it does cover most of them. In this section, we will look at the following widgets: checkbox radio choice listbox textfield All of these widgets
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This week we welcome Moshe Zadka (@moshezadka) as our PyDev of the Week! Moshe is a core developer of the Twisted project and he is also a co-author of Expert Twisted from Apress Publishing. He is also the author of a self-published book, from python import better. You can find additional information about Moshe here
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Fillable forms have been a part of Adobe’s PDF format for years. One of the most famous examples of fillable forms in the United States are documents from the Internal Revenue Service. There are lots of government forms that use fillable forms. There are many different approaches for filling in these forms programmatically. The most
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This week we welcome Kai Willadsen (@kywe) as our PyDev of the Week! He is the maintainer of the Meld project, a cross-platform visual diff and merge tool written in Python. You can catch up with Kai on his blog or see what else he is working on via Github. Let’s take a few moments
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Day 3 of PyCon 2018 began with a keynote from one of the longtime core developers of Python, Brett Cannon. He spoke on the struggles of working in open source and how we should treat each other with kindness throughout the process. I completely agreed with all his points as the negativity I see sometimes
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This week we welcome Anthony Shaw (@anthonypjshaw) as our PyDev of the Week! Anthony is involved in several open source projects. You can read up on all of them over on his website. He also has a blog on Medium. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Anthony better! Can you tell us
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Day two of PyCon 2018 was kicked off with a few lightning talks. Next up were the keynotes. The first keynote was given by Ying Li from Docker. She spent her keynote talking about good security practices in the web and used a children’s book to illustrate her topic. It was kind of a fun
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PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio kicked off their first conference day with an introduction from one of Cleveland’s natives, Ernest W. Durbin III. Then we moved on to the keynote of the morning which was given by Dan Callahan from Mozilla. He talked about tooling and how Python currently doesn’t have a big presence on
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Editor’s note: This week we have a guest post from Alex, the CEO of CheckIO In life we always have options whether we know about them or not. It’s the same with coding. There is a fair amount of different ways in which we can approach a particular task. We might not consider those ways,
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This week we welcome Elizabeth Sander as our PyDev of the Week! Elizabeth is a data scientist at Civis Analytics. She has her own website where you can learn a lot of interesting background information about her. If you are more interested in her open source projects, then her Github profile may be what you
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There are many times where you will want to extract data from a PDF and export it in a different format using Python. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of Python packages that do the extraction part very well. In this chapter, we will look at a variety of different packages that you can use to
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