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Hacker News thread on PDF reporting tools
By Vasudev Ram I saw this thread about PDF reporting tools on Hacker News (HN) today: Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days? It was interesting to see that multiple HN users commented...
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PDF in a Net, with Netius, a pure Python network library
By Vasudev Ram I came across Netius, a pure Python network library, recently. Excerpt from the Netius home page: [ Netius is a Python network library that can be used for the rapid creation of...
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Convert JSON to PDF with xtopdf
By Vasudev Ram I added support for JSON as an input format to xtopdf, my Python toolkit for PDF creation. Here is an example program, JSONtoPDF.py, that shows how to use xtopdf to convert JSON data to...
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Convert TSV (Tab Separated Values) to PDF with xtopdf
By Vasudev Ram I wrote this program, TSVToPDF.py, as a demo of how to convert TSV data to PDF, using my xtopdf toolkit.TSV, which stands for Tab Separated Values, is a common data format. From the...
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Publish databases to PDF with PyDAL and xtopdf
By Vasudev Ram Some days ago, I had blogged about pyDAL, a pure Python Database Abstraction Layer.Today I thought of writing a program to publish database data to PDF, using PyDAL and xtopdf, my open...
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PrettyTable to PDF is pretty easy with xtopdf
By Vasudev Ram “PrettyTable to PDF is pretty easy with xtopdf.” How’s that for some alliteration? PrettyTable is a Python library to help you generate nice tables with ASCII characters as the borders,...
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HTML text to PDF with Beautiful Soup and xtopdf
By Vasudev Ram Recently, I thought of getting the text from HTML documents and putting that text to PDF. So I did it Here’s how: """HTMLTextToPDF.pyA demo program to show how to convert the text...
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Excel to PDF with xlwings and xtopdf
By Vasudev Ram Excel to PDF with xlwings and xtopdf – how many x in that? I came across xlwings recently via the Net. xlwings is by Zoomer Analytics, a startup based in Zürich, Switzerland, by a team...
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Publish SQLite data to PDF using named tuples
By Vasudev Ram Some time ago I had written this post:Publishing SQLite data to PDF is easy with xtopdf.It showed how to get data from an SQLite (Wikipedia) database and write it to PDF, using xtopdf,...
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Foxit PDF Reader Sees New Linux Release
Foxit PDF Reader for Linux was updated recently, after years of no new releases. The new version brings support for opening PDFs in tabs, annotations and more. Foxit Reader is a popular free to use...
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Adobe Pulls Linux PDF Reader Downloads From Website
Things are about to get tricky if you need to use Adobe’s own PDF reader application on Linux: the company has pulled the download links. The post Adobe Pulls Linux PDF Reader Downloads From Website...
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How to Quickly Convert Comic Book files to PDF on Ubuntu
Want to convert crb or cbz to PDF on Ubuntu? Reader Rumesh986 has created a simple bash script that does exactly that. This post, How to Quickly Convert Comic Book files to PDF on Ubuntu, was written...
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