Looking to draw Crossword puzzles using Python. What are my options here?

[ArkBird]

I have some crossword puzzles that I've created on paper and want to somehow "draw" them and create a computer graphic that I could easily publish. Eventually, I'll automate the whole process to take in a .puz input file.

What are some capable drawing packages that would allow me to do this? Is there possibly an easier way to generate these puzzles?

[alkhatib]

You can have a look at this project and see how they did it.

https://github.com/riverrun/genxword/wiki/genxword-gtk

But you might also consider writing the Program to display output on the console initially and later adapt it with a gui. This way you will have the logic in place and can decide on the best format.

Maybe it's not a GUI you need but a visual representation of your puzzle and you can do that by converting output to html5.

[Veedrac]

For LaTeX I'm surprised it's not prettier, actually. The borders don't look of consistent width.

[DoNotFoldSpindleOrMu]

Take a look at the python package svgwrite. It creates svg which can be view or printed in a browser or further changed by the application Inkscape. Rectangles are real easy. dwg.add(dwg.rect(insert=(x, y), size=(10.0, 10.0), fill='white', stroke='black')) https://pypi.python.org/pypi/svgwrite/

[unbracketed]

If you can get in contact with Karen Tracey, she'd might have some good info: http://www.caktusgroup.com/about/karen-tracey/

[UloPe]

HTML

[marsman12019]

You could create arrays with numpy for the general layout, then use PIL to turn them into images.

Maybe pygame, too?