fpdf2 is a PDF creation library for Python:
from fpdf import FPDF
pdf = FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font('helvetica', size=12)
pdf.cell(txt="hello world")
pdf.output("hello_world.pdf")This is a fork of fpdf2 which contains some changes needed for integration
in reportbro-lib, a reporting framework to generate pdf and xlsx
reports based on report templates. The report template is created visually with a Javascript plugin.
Changes include a setting for encode_error_handling, image alignment options and an optimized method
to split text into lines.
fpdf2 itself is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF (cf. history).
Compared with other PDF libraries, fpdf2 is fast, versatile, easy to learn and to extend (example).
It is also entirely written in Python and has very few dependencies:
Pillow, defusedxml & svg.path.
pip install reportbro-fpdf2To get the latest, unreleased, development version straight from the development branch of this repository:
pip install git+https://github.com/jobsta/fpdf2.git@master- Python 3.7+ support
- Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding
- Internal / external links
- Embedding images, including transparency and alpha channel
- Arbitrary path drawing and basic SVG import
- Embedding barcodes, charts & graphs, emojis, symbols & dingbats
- Tables and also cell / multi-cell / plaintext writing, with automatic page breaks, line break and text justification
- Choice of measurement unit, page format & margins. Optional page header and footer
- Basic conversion from HTML to PDF
- A templating system to render PDFs in batchs
- Images & links alternative descriptions, for accessibility
- Table of contents & document outline
- Document encryption & document signing
- Annotations, including text highlights, and file attachments
- Presentation mode with control over page display duration & transitions
- Optional basic Markdown-like styling:
**bold**, __italics__ - Can render mathematical equations & charts
- Usage examples with Django, Flask, FastAPI, streamlit, AWS lambdas... : Usage in web APIs
- 1000+ unit tests running under Linux & Windows, with
qpdf-based PDF diffing, timing & memory usage checks, and a high code coverage
Our 350+ reference PDF test files, generated by fpdf2, are validated using 3 different checkers:
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- Tutorial in several languages: English - Deutsch - español - हिंदी - português - Русский - Italian - français - Ελληνικά - עברית - 简体中文 - বাংলা
- Release notes: CHANGELOG.md
- A series of blog posts: fpdf2 tag @ ludochaordic
You can also have a look at the tests/, they're great usage examples!
Please check the dedicated documentation page.
This library could only exist thanks to the dedication of many volunteers around the world:
This project follows the all-contributors specification (emoji key). Contributions of any kind welcome!
(screenshot from January 2023, click on the map above to access an up-to-date online version)
More about those in the documentation.