S13-Words-for-the-Future-notebooks/reportlab-canvas-A4-bag-of-words.ipynb

Reportlab Canvas (A4) - Bag of Words¶

An example notebook to make PDFs with Reportlab.

This notebook draws 100 words on an A4 PDF.

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from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4
from reportlab.lib.units import mm
from reportlab.lib.colors import magenta, lightgrey

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c = Canvas("reportlab-canvas-A4-bag-of-words.pdf", pagesize=(210*mm, 297*mm), bottomup=0)

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c.setPageSize(A4)

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# Draw a background color
c.setFillColor(lightgrey)
c.rect(0, 0, A4[0], A4[1], stroke=0, fill=1)

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# Set a font, change the font color
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont, pdfmetrics

fontpath = "fonts/OSP-DIN.ttf"
font =  TTFont('OSP-DIN', fontpath)
pdfmetrics.registerFont(font)

c.setFont('OSP-DIN', 32)
c.setFillColor(magenta)

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# First bag-of-words: 100 randomly picked and positioned words, based on the text *Language and Software Studies* (`txt/language.txt`).
# Use the random module and open the language.txt file 
import random

txt = open('txt/language.txt', 'r').read()
words = txt.split()

# Draw a random bag-of-words on the canvas
for n in range(100):
    x = random.randint(0, 190)
    y = random.randint(0, 280)
    word = random.choice(words).strip(',.')
    print(x, y, word)
    c.drawString(x*mm, y*mm, word)

# Add a small caption
c.setFont('Courier', 10)
c.setFillColor(blue)
c.drawCentredString(105*mm, 290*mm, 'Random words from Language and Software Studies, by Florian Cramer (2005)')

# Save the PDF!
c.save()

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# Another bag-of-words: word selections from Words of the Future
import os
import random

bag = []
filenames = []

folder = 'txt/words-for-the-future/'
for file in os.listdir(folder):
    # print(folder+file)
    txt = open('txt/language.txt', 'r').read()
    words = txt.split()
    bag += words
    filenames.append(file) # We will use this for the caption

# print(bag)

# Select all the words that end on "ing" and draw them on the canvas
for word in words:
    word = word.strip(',/\\!?;:"\'.') # "clean up" the words
    x = random.randint(0, 190)
    y = random.randint(0, 280)
    if word.endswith('ing'):
        print(x, y, word)
        c.drawString(x*mm, y*mm, word)

# Add a small caption
c.setFont('Courier', 10)
c.setFillColor(blue)
filenames_str = ', '.join(filenames)
c.drawCentredString(105*mm, 290*mm, 'Random words from: {f} (Words for the Future)'.format(f=filenames_str))

# Save the PDF!
c.save()

84 58 computing
173 112 programming
113 255 processing
102 115 programming
145 38 nothing
54 71 programming
106 139 programming
107 10 programming
49 84 programming
8 188 expressing
158 63 programming
124 257 anything
39 8 understanding
121 221 programming
91 127 programming
12 170 understanding
71 47 programming
17 33 nothing
36 280 programming
175 112 typing
173 275 thinking
69 217 involving
29 274 meaning
122 223 meaning
75 45 meaning
104 255 programming
94 172 Turing
48 181 programming
29 107 programming
72 179 speaking
185 238 programming
71 214 Nothing
25 279 programming
76 255 thinking
31 152 programming
26 237 denoting
161 56 storing
6 170 transmitting
70 38 “programming
5 112 indicating
156 188 giving
56 238 passing
142 37 accepting
109 92 trading
163 161 Writing
1 163 programming
157 1 phrasing
93 161 layering
61 170 nothing
62 162 processing
152 19 string
47 259 computing
63 69 reshaping
71 144 data—including
187 156 writing
156 227 consisting
125 119 meaning
68 45 writing
123 18 dragging
72 153 encoding
53 209 expressing
31 273 flying
17 32 programming
166 140 programming
167 117 programming
42 214 programming
144 271 encoding
131 255 understanding
133 2 programming
7 66 programming
124 206 involving
166 46 writing
158 135 thinking
104 237 understanding
18 206 amusing
11 97 according
9 169 Designing
28 199 According
152 205 writing
97 274 surprising
49 92 Reading

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