fpdf

Simple PDF generation for Python

Description

pyfpdf: FPDF for python
=======================

PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported
from PHP (see `FPDF <http://www.fpdf.org/>`__ "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 easy to learn, extend and
maintain.

Features:
---------

-  Python 2.5 to 2.7 support (with experimental Python3 support)
-  Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding
-  Barcode I2of5 and code39, QR code coming soon ...
-  PNG, GIF and JPG support (including transparency and alpha channel)
-  Templates with a visual designer & basic html2pdf
-  Exceptions support, other minor fixes, improvements and PEP8 code
   cleanups

Installation Instructions:
--------------------------

To get the latest development version you can download the source code
running:

::

       hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/ 
       cd pyfpdf
       python setup.py install

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

::

       pip install fpdf

**Note:** `Python Imaging
Library <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>`__ (PIL) is needed for
GIF support. PNG and JPG support is built-in and don't require any
external dependency.

Documentation:
--------------

-  Tutorial: https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/Tutorial
-  Reference Manual:
   https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/ReferenceManual (spanish
   translation available)

For further information, see the project site:
https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/ or the GitHub mirror:
https://github.com/reingart/pyfpdf