Python does PDF: pyFPDF
Python does PDF: pyFPDF
About the Book
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Through this book I hope to share my hard earned knowledge about generating PDF documents dynamically using Python and libraries like pyFPDF, the main subject of this book.
If you are a busy professional developer like I am you do not want to spend too much time reading through lots of explanations. You want to get to the solution to your problem fast. That is why this book is written in cookbook style divided in some common themes. Most of the explaining will be done in the code's comments. The free sample already provides around 30 useful code examples!
I consider the book complete in the sense that it already covers basic and advanced topics about the most used features of pyFPDF. However, the content will keep expanding. I am actively working with the library in actual client's projects and I will share with book buyers any new knowledge, trick or hack I learn.
This book can help you add more value to client's projects that require generating PDF reports and, hopefully, that will mean more time and money for you.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation
-
Writing text
- Hello World!
- Change paper format to Letter and units to inches
- Text color
-
Text color by color hex values using
hex2decfunction -
Text color by color names using
webcolorsmodule - Change font family and style
- Text alignment and borders
-
Positioning text cells (boxes)
- Using empty text cells to place other text cells
- Using the effective page width to distribute content evenly
- Using the effective page width to center text across a page
- Using method set_xy() to exactly position a text cell
-
Wrapping text automatically (multi_cell)
- Simple use of multi_cell
- Putting two adjacent multi_cell blocks
- Three adjacent multi cell columns
- Coloring multi_cell blocks
- Adjust cell width and height exactly to the text
-
Margins
- Default margins
- Changing margins
- Mix page orientations
-
Tables
- Table with horizontal lines at top and bottom
- Table with horizontal lines after every row
- Table with alternate row colors
-
Table using HTML and
write_html - Table with vertical and horizontal lines
- Table using only cell borders
- Simple table class
-
Images
- Image dimensions
- Image types supported
- Image positioning
- Images with borders
- Images in tables
- Build a PDF with images in folder
-
Images as watermarks
- Single page
- Every page
-
Templates
-
The Visual Template Designer
- Designer Toolbar
-
Replicating a document from a scanned image
- Insert document background
- Insert text elements
- Preview PDF document
- The template file
- The code to fill the template
- Clearing template contents before processing
- Modifying template’s elements at runtime
- Templates with more than one page
-
The Visual Template Designer
-
Generating PDFs in web applications
-
Using
web2py -
Using
flask
-
Using
-
Protecting with password a PDF
- Generating a password protected PDF file
-
PDF protection inside a
web2pyweb application -
PDF protection inside a
flaskweb application
-
One liners
- Empty PDF document
- Hello PDF document
- Convert text file to PDF
- Directory listing as a PDF, using multi_cell
- From standard input to PDF
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