Python 2.x Pre-compiled PDF library integration

This guide will help you run Apryse samples and integrate a free trial of the Apryse SDK into Python application on macOS. Your free trial includes unlimited trial usage and support from solution engineers.

• Python 2.7.x

• Apryse precompiled Python/Ruby SDK for macOS:

Download the SDK

Download

1. Download the Python and Ruby prebuilt binaries. Make sure you download the right architecture for your Python interpreter.
2. Extract the downloaded zip file and navigate to it.
3. Navigate to the /PDFNetC/Lib directory of the Python SDK download and execute:

1chmod a+x fix_rpaths.sh
2./fix_rpaths.sh

1. Get your Apryse trial key.

Run a specific sample

1. Navigate to the PYTHON folder in the sample, for example /Samples/PYTHON and execute ./RunTest.sh.

Run all samples

1. To run all tests, navigate to /Samples and execute the runall_python file:

1./runall_python.sh

The tests will run one by one.

This section will show you how to use our SDK to create a simple Apryse "Hello World!" application. It will create a document with one blank page and save it as a linearized PDF in its running directory.

1. Navigate to the /Samples directory and create a new directory called myApp (if it does not exist already). This guide will assume your application is named myApp. For organization, create a new directory inside myApp called PYTHON.
2. Navigate inside that PYTHON directory and create a new Python file called myApp.py. Open it with your favorite text editor and paste this into it:

1import site
2# below is the relative path to Apryse PDFNetC libraries
3site.addsitedir("../../../PDFNetC/Lib")
4import sys
5from PDFNetPython import *
6
7def main():
8    PDFNet.Initialize("YOUR_APRYSE_LICENSE_KEY")
9    doc = PDFDoc()
10    page = doc.PageCreate()         # Start a new page
11    doc.PagePushBack(page)          # Add the page to the document
12    doc.Save("output.pdf", SDFDoc.e_linearized);  # Save the document as a linearized PDF
13    print("Hello World!")
14
15if __name__ == '__main__':
16    main()

1. Run your application via python myApp.py. If all goes well your output should read:

1PDFNet is running in demo mode.
2Permission: write
3Hello World!

Check the output.pdf that the program output in the same directory. It should be a PDF with one blank page.

Check the troubleshooting page if you run into any issues going through this document.

This guide will help you run Apryse samples and integrate a free trial of the Apryse SDK into Python applications on Windows. Your free trial includes unlimited trial usage and support from solution engineers.

• Python 2.7.If you have multiple Python versions installed see the Troubleshooting.
• Apryse's PDF library for Python on Windows:

Download the SDK

download 64-bit

Download the SDK

download 32-bit

1. Make sure that Python 2.7 has been added to your path environment variable and that the executable name is python.exe.
2. Extract PDFNetWrappersWin64.zip or PDFNetWrappersWin32.zip.
3. Get your Apryse trial key.

Find and enter the Samples folder. Here you can find sample code for a large number of features supported by the Apryse SDK.

Run a specific sample

1. Find the sample you want to run and navigate into the PYTHON folder inside.
2. Find RunTest.bat and run it. The results should appear on a cmd window.

Run all samples

1. Find runall_python.bat in the samples folder and double click on it to run it. The results should appear on a cmd window.

This is called the "Apryse Hello World" application. It is easy to integrate the rest of Apryse SDK if you are able to open, save and close a PDFDoc.

1. Create a new folder in Samples by the name HelloWorld.
2. In the HelloWorld folder, create a new file called HelloWorld.py, open and edit it using your favorite text editor.
3. Insert the following to your file:To test that your code works, run the code using a shell in the HelloWorld folder using:Once you have successfully run this, you should see an output file in the working directory of this program.

1# You can use the following two lines to use PDFNetPython
2# in your solution from anywhere on your system
3# so long as you have relative path
4import site
5site.addsitedir("../../Lib")
6import sys
7
8# This is the most important packages to import
9# for basic document manipulation.
10from PDFNetPython import *
11
12def main():
13
14    # You need to initialize the PDFNet library
15    # Before calling any PDF related methods
16    PDFNet.Initialize("YOUR_APRYSE_LICENSE_KEY")
17
18    # This example creates a new document
19    # and a new page, then adds the page
20    # in the page sequence of the document
21    doc = PDFDoc()
22
23    page1 = doc.PageCreate()
24    doc.PagePushBack(page1)
25
26    # We save the document in a linearized
27    # format which is the most popular and
28    # effective way to speed up viewing PDFs
29    doc.Save(("linearized_output.pdf"), SDFDoc.e_linearized)
30
31    doc.Close()
32
33if __name__ == "__main__":
34    main()

1python.exe -u HelloWorld.py

Multiple versions of Python
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