pdfgrid 0.2.0

Features

• add regular rectangular grid over all pages of a PDF document

• define grid origin on all PDF pages

• define grid styles containing grid step, line width and colour

• use multiple grids at once with different styling

• install a Python module named pdfgrid.py

• install a Python command-line script named pdfgrid

• provide a Unittest test suite

Examples

You can use pdfgrid as a Python module e.g. like in the following interactive Python session:

>>> from reportlab.lib.colors import red
>>> from reportlab.lib.units import cm
>>> from pdfgrid import grid
>>> grid("foo.pdf", origin=(0, 0), styles=[(1*cm, 0.1, red)])
written: foo-grid.pdf

In addition there is a script named pdfscript, which can be used from the system command-line e.g. like this:

$ pdfgrid -h
$ pdfgrid -v
$ pdfgrid --origin "0,0" --styles "1*cm,0.1,colors.red" foo.pdf
written: foo-grid.pdf