cewe2pdf

A python script to turn cewe photobooks into pdf documents. The CEWE pdf export is achieved by interpreting the mcf xml-files and compiling a pdf document which looks like the cewe photo book.

There are many unsupported options, so an exact conversion cannot be guaranteed.

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Install - Windows

Install a Anaconda Python with the newest Python 3 version.

Press Windows Start button and start the "Anaconda prompt"

Make sure you have all the dependencies installed by executing:

conda install lxml reportlab pillow

Go to the directory where cewe2pdf is installed and create a text file there with filname cewe_folder.txt and use a text editor to write the installation directory of the CEWE software into the text file. Example if you have the software branded for the company DM, called "dm-Fotowelt", then this path will be:

C:\Program Files\dm\dm-Fotowelt\dm-Fotowelt.exe

Save the file and close it.

Create a nother text file called additional_fonts.txt, but leave it empty.

Install - Linux

Copy the script where your album is (*.mcf file)

Ensure the python dependancies are installed.

On Fedora :

sudo dnf install python2-lxml python2-reportlab

Define the CEWE path (the directory where your CEWE album software is - you can recognize it with the many .so files and some subdirs like Resources). Put it into a file named cewe_folder.txt.

Example with my CEWE software in /opt/CEWE :

echo "/opt/CEWE" > cewe_folder.txt

Define some additionnal fonts (name = /path/to/file.ttf) into a file named additionnal_fonts.txt

This will create an empty file :

touch additionnal_fonts.txt

You can edit additionnal_fonts.txt and add the fonts you want.

Install - continued

At this point, you should have these files in your current directory :

• cewe2pdf.py
• cewe_folder.txt
• additionnal_fonts.txt
• your *.mcf file
• a directory named <album>_mcf-Datein

How to use

Just run cewe2pdf.py and you will find a new pdf file to appear in your current directory. Example:

   python cewe2pdf.py c:\path\to\my\files\my_nice_fotobook.mcf

Development

To create a stand-alone compiled package, you can use

pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller cewe2pdf.py --onefile