On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:41:04 AM UTC-8, Tim Golden wrote: > On 16/01/2014 19:11, Harry Spier wrote: > > > > > > Dear list members, > > > > > > I have a directory that contains about a hundred subdirectories named > > > J0001,J0002,J0003 . . . etc. > > > Each of these subdirectories contains about a hundred JPEGs named > > > P001.jpg, P002.jpg, P003.jpg etc. > > > > > > I need to write a python script that will cycle thru each directory and > > > convert ALL JPEGs in each directory into a single PDF file and save > > > these PDF files (one per directory) to an output file. > > > > > > Any pointers on how to do this with a Python script would be > > > appreciated. Reading on the internet it appears that using ImageMagick > > > wouldn't work because of using too much memory. Can this be done using > > > the Python Image Library or some other library? Any sample code would > > > also be appreciated. > > > > The usual go-to library for PDF generation is ReportLab. I haven't used > > it for a long while but I'm quite certain it would have no problem > > including images. > > > > Do I take it that it's the PDF-generation side of things you're asking > > 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
