I'm trying to merge two pages one from reportlab that has the text I wish and another one is my source pdf
But when I merge those two pages, my text is rotated 90 degree
Pdf created using Report lab -> Overlay Created using Reportlab
when Merged with Source pdf -> Source Pdf
Code that I have Used :
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import io
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.units import inch
packet = io.BytesIO()
c = canvas.Canvas(packet)
c.drawString(0,0,"Hello World")
c.save()
packet.seek(0)
packet_pdf = PdfFileReader(packet)
input_pdf = PdfFileReader(open("Source.pdf", "rb"))
output = PdfFileWriter()
page = input_pdf.getPage(0)
page.mergePage(packet_pdf.getPage(0))
output.addPage(page)
outputStream = open("destination.pdf", "wb")
output.write(outputStream)
outputStream.close()
reference : Add text to Existing PDF using Python
Refered to this and created an own solution -> Python PyPDF2 merge rotated pages
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import io
from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
page_to_merge = 0 #Refers to the First page of PDF
xcoor = 250 #To be changed according to your pdf
ycoor = 650 #To be changed according to your pdf
input_pdf = PdfFileReader(open("Source.pdf", "rb"))
page_count = input_pdf.getNumPages()
inputpdf_page_to_be_merged = input_pdf.getPage(page_to_merge)
packet = io.BytesIO()
c = Canvas(packet,pagesize=(inputpdf_page_to_be_merged.mediaBox.getWidth(),inputpdf_page_to_be_merged.mediaBox.getHeight()))
c.drawString(xcoor,ycoor,"Hello World")
c.save()
packet.seek(0)
overlay_pdf = PdfFileReader(packet)
overlay = overlay_pdf.getPage(0)
output = PdfFileWriter()
for PAGE in range(page_count):
if PAGE == page_to_merge:
inputpdf_page_to_be_merged.mergeRotatedTranslatedPage(overlay,
inputpdf_page_to_be_merged.get('/Rotate') or 0,
overlay.mediaBox.getWidth()/2, overlay.mediaBox.getWidth()/2)
output.addPage(inputpdf_page_to_be_merged)
else:
Page_in_pdf = input_pdf.getPage(PAGE)
output.addPage(Page_in_pdf)
outputStream = open("destination.pdf", "wb")
output.write(outputStream)
outputStream.close()