[reportlab-users] ASPN Recipe: Text to PDF conversion

Andy Robinson reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:55:35 +0100


> Hi, for those interested, I just found this Text to PDF converter as
> written by Anand Pillai:
> 
>    http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/189858
> 
> Basically, a compact single module doing what reportlab.tools.py2pdf
> does for ASCII input, but without line/page numbering. But it does
> create all the low-level PDF itself.

That's quite impressive, but obviously very hard to get it to
do anything else with the PDF.  

This makes very smple special-purpose PDF files and looking
at the PDF it produces would be a good "lesson 1" for anyone
wanting to be a PDF hacker !

- Andy