Viewing a PDF Document and rearranging pages

[Thomas Laes]

Hi,

Is it possible to create with Python & Kivy a PDF Viewer that allows to rearrange the PDF document (e.g. changing order of the pages, rotate, and delete a single page within)?

Are there any examples / code pieces that could push me in the right direction?

Many thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Thomas

[Ben Rousch]

You will need to use a native PDF viewer to see the actual PDF content. However you could use various Python PDF libraries for the re-arranging.

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[ZenCODE]

PyPDF (now PyPDF2) was recommended to me by a friend. Should do the job?

http://mstamy2.github.io/PyPDF2/

Cheers

[Ben Rousch]

That will do the splitting/merging/re-arranging, but it will not render the content to a Kivy widget. We would need a PDF widget, like HTML and RST.

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[ZenCODE]

Quite right Ben. Sorry, I should have made it clearer that my response was an addition to yours and not a complete reply to the question. Easy to convey the wrong impression sometimes. Thanks for the catch ;-)

Cheers

[Dominique Burnand]

To display the PDF's in kivy:

I've used tito's POC in the past. Works quite well: https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/213

Also there is a branch named pdf on the kivy/kivy repository on github. But I never used that.

[Thomas Laes]

Hi Dominique,

Any plans to make soon more out of the POC?

Outside the consumer market, they are still pretty document oriented. Having a way to view, rotate, annotate, change ordering, and saving the PDF (or the instructions back to a server side tool) could open opportunities for more projects.

Eventually, the browsers itself might have such functionality, but it took the browsers already a long time until they were able to view a PDF without any plugins.

Kind regards,
Thomas