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Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder

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Subject Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder
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On 16/01/2014 19:50, vasishtha.spier@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:41:04 AM UTC-8, Tim Golden wrote:
>> On 16/01/2014 19:11, Harry Spier wrote:
>>
>>>
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>>> Dear list members,
>>
>>>
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>>> I have a directory that contains about a hundred subdirectories named
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>>> J0001,J0002,J0003 . . . etc.
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>>> Each of these subdirectories contains about a hundred JPEGs named
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>>> P001.jpg, P002.jpg, P003.jpg etc.
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>>>
>>
>>> I need to write a python script that will cycle thru each directory and
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>>> convert ALL JPEGs in each directory into a single PDF file and save
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>>> these PDF files (one per directory) to an output file.
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>>>
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>>> Any pointers on how to do this with a Python script would be
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>>> appreciated. Reading on the internet it appears that using ImageMagick
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>>> wouldn't work because of using too much memory. Can this be done using
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>>> the Python Image Library or some other library? Any sample code would
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>>> also be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> The usual go-to library for PDF generation is ReportLab. I haven't used
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>> it for a long while but I'm quite certain it would have no problem
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>> including images.
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>>
>>
>> Do I take it that it's the PDF-generation side of things you're asking
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>> about? Or do you need help iterating over hundreds of directories and files?
>>
>>
>>
>> TJG
>
> Its mostly the PDF generating side I need but I haven't yet used the Python directory and file traversing functions so an example of this would also be useful especially showing how I could capture the directory name and use that as the name of the pdf file I'm creating from the directory contents.
>
> Thanks again,
> Harry
>

I'm sorry that I can't help with your problem, but would you please read 
and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to 
prevent us seeing the double line spacing above, thanks.

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Mark Lawrence

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Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-16 19:41 +0000
  Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder vasishtha.spier@gmail.com - 2014-01-16 11:50 -0800
    Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-16 20:01 +0000
    Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-16 20:07 +0000
      Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder vasishtha.spier@gmail.com - 2014-01-16 21:42 -0800
        Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-17 08:53 +0000
        Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-17 09:01 +0000
    Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-01-16 20:12 +0000
      Re: Converting folders of jpegs to single pdf per folder vasishtha.spier@gmail.com - 2014-01-16 12:20 -0800

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