fpdf2 2.2.0rc2

Simple PDF generation for Python

Quick Start

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.

THIS VERSION IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE PyPI ‘fpdf’ PACKAGE.

Features:

• Python 2.7 to 3.5 support

• 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

Installation Instructions:

To get the latest development version you can download the source code running (for troubleshooting and additional information, see the GitHub Repository: fpdf2)

git clone https://github.com/alexanderankin/pyfpdf.git
cd pyfpdf
python setup.py install

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

pip install fpdf2

Documentation:

• Read the Docs

• FAQ

• Tutorial (Spanish translation available)

• Reference Manual

For further information, see:

• documentation home

• pdoc documentation home

• documentation home

• fpdf library (fpdf v1.x.x).

• fpdf library docs (fpdf v1.x.x).

• pyfpdf google code archive page