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fpdf2

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(text="hello world")
pdf.output("hello_world.pdf")

Go try it now online in a Jupyter notebook: or

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, & fontTools. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF (cf. history).

Development status: this project is mature and actively maintained.

We are looking for contributing developers: if you want to get involved but don't know how, or would like to volunteer helping maintain this lib, open a discussion!

Installation Instructions

pip install fpdf2

To get the latest, unreleased, development version straight from the development branch of this repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2.git@master

Features

• Python 3.10+ 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 batches
• 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
• more than 1300 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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Documentation

• Documentation Home
• Tutorial in several languages: English - Deutsch - español - हिंदी - português - Русский - Italian - français - Ελληνικά - עברית - 简体中文 - বাংলা - ភាសាខ្មែរ - 日本語 - Dutch - Polski - Türkçe - Indonesian- Slovenščina
• 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!

Development

Please check the dedicated documentation page.

Contributors ✨

This library could only exist thanks to the dedication of many volunteers around the world:

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