fpdf2 is a library for simple & fast PDF document generation in Python. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. 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.
Features
- Easy to use, with a user-friendly API, and easy to extend
- Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding (Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Baltic, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and almost any other language in the world)
- Embedding images, including transparency and alpha channel, using Pillow (Python Imaging Library)
- Arbitrary path drawing and basic SVG import
- Python 3.7+ support
- Arbitrary path drawing and basic SVG import
Categories
PDF Generation LibrariesLicense
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)Follow fpdf2
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