Minimalist PDF creation library for Python

from fpdf import FPDF

document = FPDF()
document.add_page()
document.set_font('Arial', size=12)
document.cell(w=0, txt="hello world")
document.output("hello_world.pdf")

PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported from PHP (see FPDF: "Free"-PDF, a well-known PDFlib-extension replacement with many examples, scripts and derivatives).

Compared with other PDF libraries, PyFPDF is simple, small and versatile, with advanced capabilities, and is easy to learn, extend and maintain.

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You can install PyFPDF from PyPI, with easyinstall or from Windows installers. For example, using pip:

pip install fpdf2

To get the latest development version you can download the source code running, you will need Pillow (pip install pillow)

# Linux only:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libpython-dev zlib1g-dev # libpython3.3-dev #(if necessary)

# Linux and Windows:
git clone https://github.com/alexanderankin/pyfpdf.git
cd pyfpdf
python setup.py install

• Python 3.6+ support (2.7 not supported since version 2.1)
• Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding
• Internal/External Links
• PNG, GIF and JPG support (including transparency and alpha channel)
• Shape, Line Drawing
• Cell/Multi-cell/Plaintext writing, Automatic page breaks
• Basic html2pdf (Templates with a visual designer in the works)
• Exceptions support, other minor fixes, improvements and PEP8 code cleanups
• Tox tests

Release notes: CHANGELOG.md

Documentation Home.

Also read the design-spec/tests, they're great.

To get development environment going, on Linux/Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3.7 python3.8 python3.9 \
  libpython3.6-dev libpython3.7-dev libpython3.8-dev \
  libpython3.9-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils
wget 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'
python get-pip.py
sudo pip install tox

Lets try to improve the Code Coverage statistic so that we can safely transition to external font and image libraries, and more...