Photo layout

[Stephen Boulet]

Is there a python solution that someone could recommend for the following:

I'd like to take a directory of photos and create a pdf document with
four photos sized to fit on each (landscape) page.

Thanks.

Stephen

 

[Terry Hancock]

Is there a python solution that someone could recommend for the following:

I'd like to take a directory of photos and create a pdf document with
four photos sized to fit on each (landscape) page.

Probably you could do this with PIL + reportlab.

 

[Larry Bates]

You can use Python Imaging Library (PIL) and ReportLab to resize and
place the photos on a page quite easily. Actually ReportLab calls
PIL automatically to resize the photos when you call .drawInlineImage
method of the canvas object with the proper width and height arguments.

To get ReportLab go to: http://www.reportlab.org

Note: I'm assuming the photos are in .JPG, .TIF or some format that
PIL can recognize. If they are in some proprietary RAW format you
will need to convert them first.

-Larry Bates

 

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Stephen,

I'd like to take a directory of photos and create a pdf document with
four photos sized to fit on each (landscape) page.

Use LaTex (pdflatex that is, see www.tug.org). It know how to embed
pictures and how to resize them.

Bye.
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[stephen]

Thanks! This works well -- I was letting myself be too intimidated with
reportlab before looking at the documentation, but it was really not
hard at all. I think I figured out how to do landscape mode too.

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter

def insertPicture(c):
.....c.drawInlineImage("geese1.jpg",100,100,200,150)

width, height = letter
letter = height, width # change to landscape
c = canvas.Canvas("picture.pdf",pagesize=letter)
insertPicture(c)
c.showPage()
c.save()