Question

I have a one-page OpenOffice document which is a POD template. Basically, I use this template to replace tags in the template with automatically generated data in the rendered document.

This is how it works:

# loads the POD OpenOffice template engine
from appy.pod.renderer import Renderer as OORenderer

# defines data for template tags
ctx = {'template_tag': 'my_data'}

# renders the template in my_model.odt using defined data
r = OORenderer('my_model.odt', ctx, 'rendered_file.pdf')

# saves into the specified PDF file
r.run()

I would like to generate several pages like that, and merge them into a single PDF file.

Is there a way to do it using POD?

Or maybe can I programmatically merge generated PDF files into a single file?

Thank you!

Answer 1

and merge them into a single PDF file.

just try pyPDF.

A Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of:

• extracting document information (title, author, …),
• splitting documents page by page,
• merging documents page by page,
• cropping pages,
• merging multiple pages into a single page,
• encrypting and decrypting PDF files.