pdfjinja 0.0.7

Use jinja templates to fill and sign pdf forms.

Use jinja templates to fill and sign PDF forms.

You would like to fill out a PDF form using data from an external source such as a database or an excel file. Use a PDF editing software to edit the form. Use the tooltip field to specifiy a jinja template.

Dependencies

You’ll need the pdftk library. If you want to paste images, you’ll need whatever dependencies are necessary for Pillow to load your preferred image format. Most of the packages below are taken from the Pillow documentation. You don’t need all of them. In most cases, just pdftk will do.

OSX:

brew install pdftk libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2

Ubuntu:

apt-get install python-dev python-pip libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev \
    zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev \
    tk8.6-dev python-tk pdftk libmagickwand-dev

Windows (Untested):

* Install pdftk and ensure that it is on your path.
* Install dependencies for Pillow if you want to paste images.

Installation

You can install pdfjinja with pip:

$ pip install pdfjinja
$ pdfjinja -h

Usage:

See examples/sample.pdf for an example of a pdf file with jinja templates. The template strings are placed in the tooltip property for each form field in the pdf.

See examples/output.pdf for the output. The data that the form is filled with comes from examples/sample.json.

Basic:

$ pdfjinja -j examples/simple.json examples/sample.pdf examples/output.pdf

Attachments:

$ pdfjinja --font examples/open-sans/regular.ttf \
           --json examples/sample.json \
           examples/sample.pdf \
           examples/output.pdf

Python:

from pdfjinja import PdfJinja

pdfjinja = PdfJinja('form.pdf')
pdfout = pdfjinja(dict(firstName='Faye', lastName='Valentine'))
pdfout.write(open('filled.pdf', 'wb'))

If you are using this with Flask as a webserver:

from flask import current_app
pdfjinja = PdfJinja('form.pdf', current_app.jinja_env)