I have a PDF with the art of a ticket for a fundraising dinner. I am providing a mock-up here so you can reproduce my problem:

mock up ticket

I would like to run the following pseudocode:

for i in 1:200
    copy "mock up.pdf" to $i.pdf
    inject $i into $i.pdf using font "OpenDyslexic" # place the ticket number in the pdf
end
create "final.pdf"
i = 0
for p in 1:20
    add page to "final.pdf"
    for column in 1:2
        for row in 1:5
            i = i   1
            inject $i.pdf in "final.pdf" in row, column of page p
        end
    end
end

Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

I might have a solution:

#!/bin/env python3
# adapted from https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-to-insert-text
# and https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-to-combine-single-pages
import fitz # in fact, pip install pymupdf
#from sys import argv # in a future, I might get all the parameter via command line
width, height = fitz.paper_size("A4")
r = fitz.Rect(0, 0, width, height)
doc = fitz.open("mock up.pdf")
page = doc[0]
print("input file information:")
print(doc.metadata)
print("rotation=",page.rotation)
print("cropbox=",page.cropbox)
print("mediabox=",page.mediabox)
print("rect=",page.rect)
page.set_rotation(0)
artsize=page.rect
(nx, ny) = (200,140) # position of the ticket number inside the pdf
(dx, dy) = page.mediabox_size # the displacement of the ticket inside the output pdf
ntickets=25
nrows=5 # of tickets vertically
ncols=2 # of tickets horizontally
ntickets_per_page = nrows*ncols
outpdf = fitz.open()

nrow = ncol = 0
i = 0

while i < ntickets:
    if i % ntickets_per_page == 0:
        #print("new page for ticket #",i)
        newpage = outpdf.new_page()
        nrow, ncol = 0, 0
    for ncol in range(1,ncols 1):
        for nrow in range(1,nrows 1):
            i  = 1
            if i > ntickets:
                break
            text = "{:04d}".format(i)
            locr = fitz.Rect((ncol-1)*dx,(nrow-1)*dy,ncol*dx,nrow*dy)
            #print("location of the ticket:", locr)
            newpage.show_pdf_page(locr,doc,0)

            p = fitz.Point(nx (ncol-1)*dx,ny (nrow-1)*dy)
            #print("location of the number for ticket ", i, ": ", p)
            rc = newpage.insert_text(p, # bottom left  of 1st char
                    text,
                    fontname="tibo", # Times, bold
                    fontsize=12,
                    rotate=0,
                    )
i -= 1
print("%i lines printed on %i tickets." % (rc, i))
outpdf.save("tmp{:04d}.pdf".format(i))