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This guide will help you run PDFTron samples and integrate a free trial of the PDFTron SDK into Python applications on Windows. 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 .
If you have multiple Python versions installed see the Troubleshooting.
path
environment variable and that the executable name is python.exe
.Extract the folder from the .zip file.
This article uses PDFNET_BASE
as the path into the folder that you extracted.
PDFNET_BASE = path/to/extraction/folder/PDFNetDotNet4/
Find and enter the Samples
folder (PDFNetC(64)/Samples
). Here you can find sample code for a large number of features supported by the PDFTron SDK.
Run a specific sample
PYTHON
folder inside. RunTest.bat
and run it. The results should appear on a cmd
window.Run all samples
runall_python.bat
in the samples folder and double click on it to run it. The results should appear on a cmd
window. This is called the "PDFTron Hello World" application. It is easy to integrate the rest of PDFTron SDK if you are able to open, save and close a PDFDoc.
Samples
by the name HelloWorld
. HelloWorld
folder, create a new file called HelloWorld.py
, open and edit it using your favorite text editor.Insert the following to your file:
# You can use the following two lines to use PDFNetPython
# in your solution from anywhere on your system
# so long as you have relative path
import site
site.addsitedir("../../Lib")
import sys
# This is the most important packages to import
# for basic document manipulation.
from PDFNetPython import *
def main():
# You need to initialize the PDFNet library
# Before calling any PDF related methods
PDFNet.Initialize()
# This example creates a new document
# and a new page, then adds the page
# in the page sequence of the document
doc = PDFDoc()
page1 = doc.PageCreate()
doc.pagePushBack(page1)
# We save the document in a linearized
# format which is the most popular and
# effective way to speed up viewing PDFs
doc.Save(("linearized_output.pdf"), SDFDoc.e_linearized)
doc.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
To test that your code works, run the code using a shell in the HelloWorld
folder using:
python.exe -u HelloWorld.py
Once you have successfully run this, you should see an output file in the working directory of this program.
Multiple versions of Python
More information for conflict resolution between multiple Python installations.
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