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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: 
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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 fpdf2
To 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
**bold**, __italics__qpdf-based PDF diffing, timing & memory usage checks, and a high code coverageOur 350+ reference PDF test files, generated by fpdf2, are validated using 3 different checkers:
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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.
FAQs
Simple & fast PDF generation for Python
We found that fpdf2 demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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