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: 
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!
pip install fpdf2To 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- Python 3.7 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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- 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
- 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!
Please check the dedicated documentation page.
This library could only exist thanks to the dedication of many volunteers around the world:
This project follows the all-contributors specification (emoji key). Contributions of any kind welcome!
(screenshot from January 2023, click on the map above to access an up-to-date online version)
More about those in the documentation.