1 00:00:02,469 --> 00:00:08,410 In this video, you learn how to create PDF documents with Python from scratch. 2 00:00:09,340 --> 00:00:14,290 Specifically, we will generate this PDF via Python. 3 00:00:15,070 --> 00:00:20,230 So it's a one page PDF document that has this picture here. 4 00:00:21,220 --> 00:00:23,200 So we will add that with Python. 5 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,620 It has this title, a description. 6 00:00:26,770 --> 00:00:28,020 Some text in here. 7 00:00:28,030 --> 00:00:29,230 Multi-line text. 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:37,880 Similar texts in here and also more texts in a tabular format, so it's a table without borders, and 9 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,070 you can also make tables with borders. 10 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:43,790 You'll see how to create both those types of tables. 11 00:00:44,390 --> 00:00:48,260 So let's create this PDF together from scratch. 12 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:57,470 I am on a new wrinkle here, so feel free to use any I.D. and import a PDF. 13 00:00:57,620 --> 00:01:05,450 So you need to install PDF if you don't have it already, and then you can just import from f PDF. 14 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,760 That is a package you need to install. 15 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:17,810 We only need that FPGA EV class in uppercase lizards and then right away, we need to create an PDF 16 00:01:18,110 --> 00:01:19,550 object instance. 17 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,570 So that's a b c d f in parentheses. 18 00:01:23,930 --> 00:01:27,530 And here we give a bunch of arguments. 19 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:37,060 The first one is the orientation you want to give to your PDF, so we could have P or L. 20 00:01:37,070 --> 00:01:40,370 So P stands for a portrait orientation. 21 00:01:41,030 --> 00:01:47,210 So the PDF you just so on my screen was in portrait mode. 22 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:54,920 Then we can also give the units in p t so points. 23 00:01:56,510 --> 00:02:02,210 There are different units as well, but also just use p t, and this is the units that will be used 24 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:04,220 for the text. 25 00:02:04,550 --> 00:02:11,690 So when we see, for example, font is equal to 12, that is the size of the font and that is a standardized 26 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:14,720 units that you see use in. 27 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:22,010 In a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or text of 12, for example, has a standard size, 28 00:02:22,220 --> 00:02:22,950 a small font. 29 00:02:22,950 --> 00:02:24,980 So then you have 14 and 16 and so on. 30 00:02:26,820 --> 00:02:35,610 And you may also want to specify the format, so a four would be the formats if you are in Europe, 31 00:02:35,610 --> 00:02:36,210 for example. 32 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,440 And then you have a letter if you are in the U.S. and so on. 33 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:48,190 So A4 is 298 by 210 mm. 34 00:02:48,370 --> 00:02:55,640 The dimensions of the page, once you have that object, then this is just an empty PDF document. 35 00:02:55,670 --> 00:02:57,620 For now, it doesn't have any pages. 36 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:06,640 So the next thing we want to do is add a page using the add on the score page methods of that's. 37 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:08,710 It's no need for arguments there. 38 00:03:10,530 --> 00:03:12,420 Then we were ready to add contents. 39 00:03:12,690 --> 00:03:20,430 So the way this works is that you should start from top to bottom, so add contents to the top of the 40 00:03:20,430 --> 00:03:25,960 PDF and then keep adding on there that content. 41 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:33,960 Sue, the first line that you saw in the PDB that I showed you the top content was an image. 42 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:36,060 So let's see how we can add an image. 43 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:41,850 You point to that variable, which contains the PDF object instance. 44 00:03:42,330 --> 00:03:48,180 And then you just point to image to see a complete list of methods. 45 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,610 You can use the help function. 46 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,390 So in an interactive python shell, import PDF and then use help. 47 00:03:59,130 --> 00:03:59,790 Let me do that. 48 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:03,080 So EPRDF package. 49 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:09,030 So I'll install this package first before I use it in the interactive show. 50 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:18,390 Of just import EPRDF. 51 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:21,760 Then I'll create that PDF. 52 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:25,620 Instance of then help PDF. 53 00:04:27,140 --> 00:04:31,400 And then you should see how to use PDF. 54 00:04:33,290 --> 00:04:40,640 And then you have a method here only to see a more cleaner list of the methods just used the PDF. 55 00:04:40,950 --> 00:04:46,880 So PDF is the variable and you'll see that image is among those methods, not the image methods. 56 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,640 This gets as inputs, the path to the image you want to add. 57 00:04:54,330 --> 00:04:58,840 So I'm going to add an image in this project directory. 58 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,460 I'm going to upload it from my folders. 59 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,160 I have this tiger, that Jeep tag image. 60 00:05:05,340 --> 00:05:11,490 You can also find this image attached in the luxury sources and then place it in the same directory 61 00:05:11,490 --> 00:05:13,590 with your project. 62 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,750 So with your main data profile and then you pass the path to that image. 63 00:05:19,410 --> 00:05:20,940 So that's the first argument. 64 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:29,760 There are two more arguments you need to give, and that is the width of the contents of the image in 65 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:37,380 this case, and I'll put eighty eight p t and the the height outputs 50. 66 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:37,960 Why? 67 00:05:38,310 --> 00:05:45,990 Because I know that this image is eight hundred pixels wide and 500 pixels. 68 00:05:48,010 --> 00:05:48,400 Hi. 69 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:57,190 So I'm trying to keep the same ratio here, not to distort the image, so I'm doing 80 and 50, so the 70 00:05:57,190 --> 00:06:02,740 image will be like 10 times smaller than what's the original size is. 71 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,330 Now we can keep adding content here, and we will do that. 72 00:06:07,630 --> 00:06:14,230 But before we do that, I would just like to show you how you can finish the generation of the PDF file 73 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:20,380 so you can point to the ultimate method and then you define the path you declared the path you wants. 74 00:06:20,770 --> 00:06:22,900 This PDF to be saved, too. 75 00:06:23,230 --> 00:06:29,560 So if you just see also the PDF, this PDF will be saved in the same project directory among these files. 76 00:06:29,980 --> 00:06:37,600 So all the wrong that and this is the generated file and see as a PDF, the tiger is just here in the 77 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:38,080 corner. 78 00:06:38,710 --> 00:06:44,260 Now you might be wondering what if we want to put the tiger at the very right corner in here? 79 00:06:44,650 --> 00:06:52,180 I'll show you all to do that on, and you should work with image methods again and you can play around 80 00:06:52,180 --> 00:06:57,550 with the X and you also have a Y parameter to change the vertical position. 81 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:02,650 So with X, if you set it to five phones, it's pretty. 82 00:07:03,070 --> 00:07:10,330 I think that should be a good number to place the tiger 500's points to the right or wrong again, and 83 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:13,210 that will override the existing outputs. 84 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:22,660 File a PDA file and you see that the image now is on the right corner, so if you just remove that, 85 00:07:23,050 --> 00:07:25,450 it will go again to the left corner. 86 00:07:26,110 --> 00:07:28,750 Next, let's add a title. 87 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,440 A big heading for the PDF documents. 88 00:07:33,370 --> 00:07:43,720 So to add text now you use PDF of that cell and you need to pass a Y, which is the width of the cell. 89 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:52,840 So the PDF creation is based on sales, so you add a table and you add sales to the table. 90 00:07:53,740 --> 00:08:03,490 Now the with if you set it to zero, that means that sale will occupy the entire width of that particular 91 00:08:03,490 --> 00:08:04,030 room. 92 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:12,710 And the height also of the texts may be 30 to 50 and see what happens. 93 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:22,610 Finally, text is the argument that contains the text that you want to place in that part of a PDF. 94 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,670 So let's see Malayan Tiger. 95 00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:30,820 We're creating of this PDF with data about this kind of tiger. 96 00:08:30,830 --> 00:08:39,530 So let's say a biology reports, or you could also implement a bill with data about the customer or 97 00:08:39,530 --> 00:08:40,940 whatever you need in your job. 98 00:08:41,870 --> 00:08:43,130 So this is just an example. 99 00:08:44,270 --> 00:08:45,980 Let's execute it like this. 100 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:55,110 But we will get an error because we haven't defined the forms just yet. 101 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,380 So we see it has something to do with the funds. 102 00:09:00,310 --> 00:09:08,250 Therefore, before you create a cell, you should define the forms of that cell using PDA of the set 103 00:09:08,620 --> 00:09:09,140 font. 104 00:09:09,430 --> 00:09:12,790 So this method should be above the cell method. 105 00:09:15,530 --> 00:09:19,580 And then you say family is perhaps times it's one of the families. 106 00:09:21,140 --> 00:09:23,260 Style, let's set it to bolt. 107 00:09:23,530 --> 00:09:27,680 Use a Capital B for that and the size of a font. 108 00:09:28,370 --> 00:09:32,060 Let's say 24 points run again. 109 00:09:33,570 --> 00:09:41,970 This time I have a type of family, a sort of family run again, and we should see the update, its 110 00:09:42,210 --> 00:09:43,380 outputs this time. 111 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:49,860 Somalian tiger, it's by default at the left position of this next cell. 112 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:54,420 So we got the image cell in here of next cell. 113 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:55,200 Let's please. 114 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:55,980 It's in the center. 115 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,430 You do that in the cell itself. 116 00:10:00,420 --> 00:10:03,870 So a line is equal to capital C.. 117 00:10:04,050 --> 00:10:09,030 So you see style with capital B. Alignment with Capital C, which means the center. 118 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:19,500 And so this time we got it for right now, if you add a border of one. 119 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:31,060 And Ron, you see how the sale looks like, so now you understand that this is really a sell. 120 00:10:31,510 --> 00:10:34,870 So it occupies the full width of the PDF. 121 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:47,940 Text area, and if you change the words to something else, for example, 200, you've see that the 122 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:50,370 width of the cell changes. 123 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:56,160 But that is not the best use when you want to keep the text of the sensor. 124 00:10:56,430 --> 00:10:59,760 So just keep that with zero and you'll be fine. 125 00:11:01,260 --> 00:11:03,720 So that's what we want. 126 00:11:04,740 --> 00:11:12,030 I'm going to remove the border as well and keep adding more cells, so PDAF that phones for another 127 00:11:12,030 --> 00:11:12,960 cell family. 128 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:22,720 Is going to be times again, the style is Bolt again. 129 00:11:25,810 --> 00:11:38,430 The size will be 14 %dv they'll sell W equal to zero height is equal to perhaps 50 and 60. 130 00:11:38,450 --> 00:11:47,260 This time I want to place the scription no Ron and see that we will have an issue in here. 131 00:11:47,590 --> 00:11:54,400 You see, the scription starts right here in the same room as the Malayan tiger. 132 00:11:56,020 --> 00:12:03,880 Text the problem here is here that we didn't declare that we want a break line anywhere, so we want 133 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:04,510 to do that. 134 00:12:04,750 --> 00:12:11,530 And you do that in the Malayan tiger cell without and is equal to one. 135 00:12:12,250 --> 00:12:20,800 So that means once this cell and so we will have a break line and then the next sale will start in a 136 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:21,790 new position. 137 00:12:22,330 --> 00:12:23,680 So you see description now. 138 00:12:24,220 --> 00:12:25,240 We didn't censor it. 139 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:26,830 So that's why it's on the left. 140 00:12:27,610 --> 00:12:28,690 So the description? 141 00:12:30,340 --> 00:12:32,490 Let's add another cell. 142 00:12:33,010 --> 00:12:38,400 So before that, we need to use land is equal to one again and then Peter. 143 00:12:38,410 --> 00:12:46,120 But since forms family times and size is 12 this time. 144 00:12:46,330 --> 00:12:52,050 So we'll have some description of both the tiger here and then PGA of the sale. 145 00:12:53,780 --> 00:13:04,040 With this with zero height is 50 and 60 to 60, that's argument a sequel to some long texts. 146 00:13:04,310 --> 00:13:07,620 So what I'll do is I'll creates a multi-line text. 147 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:15,170 You want a sequel to those three quotes in here, and I will get some texts from the Malian Tiger Wikipedia 148 00:13:15,170 --> 00:13:15,550 page. 149 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:23,030 So just find this Wikipedia page on Google and just copy two or three lines and pays them there. 150 00:13:23,810 --> 00:13:32,510 Close them with three other quotes one two three, and we have a multiplying string there, which provides 151 00:13:32,630 --> 00:13:35,620 for the text the argument. 152 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:43,670 Now the problem now is that if I run this, you see the output does not look as you'd expect. 153 00:13:44,060 --> 00:13:47,930 So after the description here we have quite a lot of space. 154 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:49,360 That's one problem. 155 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:57,320 The other problem is that this text is not rabbits, so we don't see the text off of this anymore. 156 00:13:57,710 --> 00:13:59,540 Let's fix these two problems. 157 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:07,730 First, this issue with a space in here, we have that big space because the heights of the description 158 00:14:07,730 --> 00:14:08,720 cell is 50. 159 00:14:09,260 --> 00:14:11,210 That, to me, is the height of the cell. 160 00:14:11,810 --> 00:14:19,700 As you can see, when we visualize a border, the height is this. 161 00:14:19,910 --> 00:14:22,210 So that is 50. 162 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:28,400 We want to decrease that so that we have less space between that and that. 163 00:14:28,790 --> 00:14:36,800 Actually, we want to decrease the height of both the text of the description and the text of this description 164 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:37,340 label. 165 00:14:37,670 --> 00:14:44,000 So let's make that 15 and the other one 15 run. 166 00:14:45,430 --> 00:14:46,410 Cloth outputs. 167 00:14:46,550 --> 00:14:47,650 Yeah, it looks better. 168 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:56,290 Of course, we don't want that border line of description label. 169 00:14:56,650 --> 00:15:03,310 And no, let's fix the text wrapping issue to fix that. 170 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:04,360 You cannot fix it. 171 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:09,850 With this methods, you need to use another method when you want to add to multi-line texting a PDF 172 00:15:09,850 --> 00:15:11,140 file with Python. 173 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,480 In that case, you use a multi underscore sale methods. 174 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:19,030 That's all we have to change. 175 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:23,890 So run that again, see the artifacts and it looks better. 176 00:15:25,390 --> 00:15:27,040 So that fixes the issue. 177 00:15:27,550 --> 00:15:30,310 Let's add some more cells. 178 00:15:31,990 --> 00:15:37,030 So I want to add to know these to some data. 179 00:15:38,170 --> 00:15:44,320 So the kingdom and then next to that, I want to at Animalia and the phylum Chordata. 180 00:15:44,590 --> 00:15:46,270 So let's add these dots on here. 181 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:47,860 We have to. 182 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:55,500 Do these two more times, so Seth won't sell one to one here, one here. 183 00:15:56,250 --> 00:16:00,570 So the first one was the kingdom. 184 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:07,440 Kingdom there, so that's a sin bolt. 185 00:16:08,460 --> 00:16:12,930 And then after Kingdom, we don't want the line, this thing, we don't want a brake line. 186 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:16,470 We want the next sale, which is Animalia. 187 00:16:17,250 --> 00:16:22,380 So we want that sale to be just next to that's even the same in the same line. 188 00:16:22,860 --> 00:16:26,070 So that's why I removed the N1 ports. 189 00:16:26,430 --> 00:16:27,660 I don't want this to be bought. 190 00:16:27,940 --> 00:16:31,110 Remove the style completely. 191 00:16:33,010 --> 00:16:41,110 And, yeah, kingdom, but we have a lot of space because now we need to play around with the width, 192 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:45,070 which is zero, so zero means the sale. 193 00:16:46,190 --> 00:16:52,130 Expands from here to there, and the next sale starts where the previous sale ends. 194 00:16:52,550 --> 00:16:54,740 So let's make the width smaller. 195 00:16:57,390 --> 00:17:02,790 A width of 100 should do it for both run. 196 00:17:04,619 --> 00:17:07,170 Cereals, fruits, and it comes closer. 197 00:17:08,780 --> 00:17:10,400 Of course, you can also use. 198 00:17:16,270 --> 00:17:25,660 Colin there to make it look cleaner and grammatically correct, so I'll copy those to and put them here 199 00:17:25,660 --> 00:17:25,930 again. 200 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:28,119 So this is the last one. 201 00:17:28,569 --> 00:17:31,540 That is the film called Tom. 202 00:17:36,170 --> 00:17:36,590 Run. 203 00:17:38,980 --> 00:17:40,270 And that's the ultimate. 204 00:17:41,370 --> 00:17:45,660 I'll increase the heights a little bit to that, because this is too small. 205 00:17:46,260 --> 00:17:50,820 25, 25, 25, 25 run. 206 00:17:52,380 --> 00:17:53,330 And that's the ultimate. 207 00:17:55,260 --> 00:17:59,850 So that's a neat PDF document that we generated via Python. 208 00:18:00,060 --> 00:18:01,350 This was just an example. 209 00:18:01,650 --> 00:18:06,600 And it was manual work, so we added those dots on manually. 210 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:15,300 Both in the next video is what I'll do is I will get the data from an Excel file and our creates multiple 211 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:19,380 PDF reports using data from that Excel file. 212 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:26,370 So the Python script will gather data from the Excel file, and it will automatically generate multiple 213 00:18:26,370 --> 00:18:29,610 PDF documents and with those data insights. 214 00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:31,170 So I'll talk to you in the next video. 215 00:18:31,170 --> 00:18:31,620 This you.