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pyfpdf: FPDF for python

PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported from PHP (see FPDF <http://www.fpdf.org/>__ "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 easy to learn, extend and maintain.

Features:

• Python 2.5 to 2.7 support (with experimental Python3 support)
• Unicode (UTF-8) TrueType font subset embedding
• Barcode I2of5 and code39, QR code coming soon ...
• PNG, GIF and JPG support (including transparency and alpha channel)
• Templates with a visual designer & basic html2pdf
• Exceptions support, other minor fixes, improvements and PEP8 code cleanups

Installation Instructions:

To get the latest development version you can download the source code running:

::

   hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/ 
   cd pyfpdf
   python setup.py install

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

::

   pip install fpdf

Note: Python Imaging Library <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>__ (PIL) is needed for GIF support. PNG and JPG support is built-in and don't require any external dependency.

Documentation:

• Tutorial: https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/Tutorial
• Reference Manual: https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/ReferenceManual (spanish translation available)

For further information, see the project site: https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/ or the GitHub mirror: https://github.com/reingart/pyfpdf