pdflib

I need to generate PDF document using the Bottle framework. I tried similar to Django but that didn't work: @bottle.route('/pd') def create_pdf(): response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/pdf; charset=UTF-8' response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="test.pdf"' from io import BytesIO buffer = BytesIO() from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas p = canvas.Canvas(buffer) p.drawString(100,100,'Hello World') p.showPage() p.save() pdf = buffer.getvalue() buffer.close() response.write(pdf) return response Bottle functions aren't supposed to return the response object, they're

Is there any tool to find the X-Y location on a text content in a pdf file ? Docotic.Pdf Library can do it. See C# sample below: using (PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument("your_pdf.pdf", "password_if_need")) { foreach (PdfTextData textData in doc.Pages[0].Canvas.GetTextData()) Console.WriteLine(textData.Position + " " + textData.Text); } Try running "Preflight..." in Acrobat and choosing PDF Analysis -> List page objects, grouped by type of object . If you locate the text objects within the results list, you will notice there is a position value (in points) within the Text Properties -> * Font

I am currently using PDF Box to parse a pdf and I am trying to figure out how to retrieve data about the text such as the font (bold, size, etc) and the location of the font. Any suggestions? Mark Storer After poking around the (hard to find) PDFBox docs, I found this little gem . Apparently one of the examples shows exactly how to do everything you asked. Basically, you subclass PdfTextStripper and override the processTextPosition method. There, you query the TextPosition for whatever information you need. For future reference, you can find the javaDoc here: http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs