Some test text!
Welcome to PDFTron. Python2 for the PDFTron SDK is supported on Windows, Linux and macOS and has precompiled wrappers available. To get started, choose your preferred platform from the tabs below.
This guide will help you run PDFTron samples and integrate a free trial of the PDFTron SDK into Python application on Linux. Your free trial includes unlimited trial usage and support from solution engineers.
There are two ways to use PDFTron with Python:
This guide will help you get started using the precompiled Python wrappers. You can find more information about PDFNetWrappers and
building your own wrapper
.
tar xvzf PDFNetWrappersLinux64.tar.gz
or tar xvzf PDFNetWrappersLinux.tar.gz
.Run a specific sample
PYTHON
folder in the sample, for example /Samples/PYTHON
and execute ./RunTest.sh
.Run all samples
/Samples
and execute the runall_python
file:./runall_python.sh
The tests will run one by one.
/Samples/TestFiles/Output
This section will show you how to use our SDK to create a simple PDFTron "Hello World!" application. It will create a document with one blank page and save it as a linearized PDF in its running directory.
/Samples
directory and create a new directory called myApp
(if it does not exist already). This guide will assume your application is named myApp. For organization, create a new directory inside myApp
called PYTHON
.Navigate inside that PYTHON
directory and create a new Python file called myApp.py
. Open it with your favorite text editor and paste this into it:
import site
# below is the relative path to PDFTron PDFNetC libraries
site.addsitedir("../../../PDFNetC/Lib")
import sys
from PDFNetPython import *
def main():
PDFNet.Initialize()
doc = PDFDoc()
page = doc.PageCreate() # Start a new page
doc.PagePushBack(page) # Add the page to the document
doc.Save("output.pdf", SDFDoc.e_linearized); # Save the document as a linearized PDF
print("Hello World!")
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Run your application via python myApp.py
. If all goes well your output should read:
PDFNet is running in demo mode.
Permission: write
Hello World!
Check the output.pdf
that the program output in the same directory. It should be a PDF with one blank page.
Check the troubleshooting page if you run into any issues going through this document.
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