fpdf2

fpdf2 is a minimalist 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")

It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. Compared with other PDF libraries, fpdf2 is simple, small and versatile, with advanced capabilities, and is easy to learn and extend. It is also entirely writen in Python (no C is involved), and has only one dependency so far, to handle images: Pillow.

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 development version:

# Linux only:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libpython-dev zlib1g-dev

# Linux and Windows:
git clone https://github.com/PyFPDF/fpdf2.git
cd fpdf2
python setup.py install

Features:

Python 3.6+ support
Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding
Internal/External Links
PNG, GIF and JPG support (including transparency and alpha channel)
Shape, Line Drawing
Generate Code 39 & Interleaved 2 of 5 barcodes
Cell / multi-cell / plaintext writing, automatic page breaks
Basic conversion from HTML to PDF
A templating system to render PDFs in batchs
Images & links alternative descriptions
Table of contents & document outline
Optional basic Markdown-like styling: **bold**, __italics__, --underlined--
Clean error handling through exceptions
Unit tests with qpdf-based PDF diffing and a high code coverage

We validate all our PDF samples using 3 different checkers:

Documentation:

Documentation Home
Tutorial in several languages: English - Spanish - हिंदी
Release notes: CHANGELOG.md

You can also have a look at the tests/, they're great usage examples!

Developers:

Please check the documentation page dedicated to development.

Contributors ✨

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

_{Mariano Reingart} 💻	_{David Ankin} 🐛 💻 📖 🚧 💬 👀 ⚠️	_{Alex Pavlovich} 🐛 💻 📖 💬 👀 ⚠️	_{Lucas Cimon} 📝 💻 📖 🚇 🚧 💬	_{Miroslav Šedivý} 💻 ⚠️	_{Florian Bernhart} 💻 ⚠️	_{Edwood Ocasio} 💻 ⚠️
_{Marcelo Duarte} 💻	_{Roman Kharin} 💻 🤔	_{Christopher Frost} 🐛 💻	_{Michael Kalbermatten} 🐛 💻	_Yanone 💻	_{Leo Zhu} 💻	_{Abishek Goda} 💻
_{Arthur Moore} 💻 ⚠️ 🐛	_{Bogdan Cuza} 💻	_{Craig Hobbs} 💻	_xitrushiy 🐛 💻	_{José L. Redrejo Rodríguez} 💻	_{Jürgen Gmach} 💻	_Larivact 💻
_{Leonel Câmara} 💻	_{Mark Steadman} 🐛 💻	_Sergey 💻	_Stan-C421 💻	_{Viraj Shah} 💻	_cornicis 💻	_moe-25 💻 👀 🔬 🐛
_{Simone Bizzotto} 💻	_{Boonyawe Sirimaha} 🐛	_T 💻 🎨	_AubsUK 💬	_{Georg Mischler} 💻 🐛 📖 🤔	_ping 🐛	_Portfedh 📖 ✅
_Tabarnhack 💻	_{Mridul Birla} 🌍