split-text-to-pdfs

gistfile1.txt

from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4
from reportlab.lib.units import inch
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

def split_text_into_chunks(text, num_chunks):
    """Split the text into specified number of chunks."""
    lines_per_chunk = len(text) // num_chunks
    return [text[i * lines_per_chunk:(i + 1) * lines_per_chunk] for i in range(num_chunks - 1)] + [text[(num_chunks - 1) * lines_per_chunk:]]

def create_pdf(text_lines, filename, font_path, font_name='SimFang', font_size=10):
    """Create a PDF from a list of text lines, with multiple pages if necessary."""
    pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont(font_name, font_path))
    c = canvas.Canvas(filename, pagesize=A4)
    textobject = c.beginText(inch * 0.5, A4[1] - inch)
    textobject.setFont(font_name, font_size)
    
    for line in text_lines:
        # Check if the text goes beyond the page limit
        if textobject.getY() < inch:
            c.drawText(textobject)
            c.showPage()
            textobject = c.beginText(inch * 0.5, A4[1] - inch)
            textobject.setFont(font_name, font_size)
        textobject.textLine(line.strip())
    
    # Don't forget to draw the text for the last page
    c.drawText(textobject)
    c.showPage()
    c.save()

def main():
    input_file = {textfile}  # Replace with your text file path
    font_file = 'simfang.ttf'      # Replace with your font file path
    num_parts = {filenumbers}

    # Read the content of the file
    with open(input_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
        lines = file.readlines()

    # Split the text into 5 chunks
    text_chunks = split_text_into_chunks(lines, num_parts)


    # Create and save PDF files
    for i, chunk in enumerate(text_chunks):
        pdf_filename = f'sunzi_part{i+1}.pdf'
        
        
        print(chunk)
        create_pdf(chunk, pdf_filename, font_file)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()