pdformfill
Fill PDF forms by generating FDF data and then using pdftk
to push the fdf into a PDF form and generate the output.
Quick install
pip install pdformfill
How to use
If our form had fields "name" and "telephone" we would fill it as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pdformfill
fields = [('name', 'John Smith'), ('telephone', '555-1234')]
pdformfill.fill_pdf(fields, "input.pdf", "output.pdf")
Running tests
- Create a virtual environment
- tox is required to run the tests. You can install the correct version with
pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
- Run
tox
to run tests for all Python versions. - To run a specific test and specific Python versions, you may use
tox -e py37 -- tests/test_encoding.py