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PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported from PHP (see FPDF: "Free"-PDF, a well-known PDFlib-extension replacement.

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pyFPDF .add_page() function breaking when instantiating from classmethod

The add_page() function errors whenever I try to get any user input in __init__() or a classmethod. It works fine when I don't have any methods to get user input, so I think it's somehow interfering. AttributeError: 'PDF' object has no attribute…
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Save Matplotlib subplot as PDF using PyFPDF

I am trying to create two figures with two plots in each figure and then create a PDF file with one of the figures. I want to choose which figure will be saved in the PDF file. I have this simple code. It's just an example: from fpdf import…
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add_page() not accepting the parameters for width and height of the page in FPDF

I was converting a number of images to pdf using FPDF in python, however doing: pdf.add_page('P',x,y) (x and y are well defined and have values, pdf = FPDF()) Returns the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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Output not doing anything when using PyFPDF

I'm trying to put all the images in a directory into a single PDF. I'm writing in python 3 and using PyFPDF. This is my code: import os from fpdf import FPDF pdf = FPDF() list = os.listdir(r'C:\this\is\my\destination\library') count = 1 for name in…
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fpdf'

Getting this error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fpdf' I've re-downloaded python, created a new venv and installed fpdf2 using pip install fpdf2, but I still get this error when I run from fpdf import FPDF python version: 3.10.4 I've looked…
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How to have an auto page break for pyfpdf when the image exceeds the page dimensions?

I looked at a similar question here but there doesn't seem to be a solution except to switch to a different library. I have created some code to automatically space my images vertically and horizontally, but I am having a problem with auto page…
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How to set language in PyFPDF to enable Adobe to read aloud correctly?

I have a python app that generate PDF documents in the Swedish language. However, the read-aloud function in Adobe think it's English so the result is incomprehensible. When I check the document properties for my PDF there is no language predefined,…
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Drawing lines on PDF with Python

Is there a way to draw lines on a PDF file, by giving it coordinates of the start and end points? I have tried PyFPDF but cannot find much documentation about implementing it.
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How to solve line discontinuity in html table (python fpdf2 generate PDF documents)

I try to generate a PDF document. I use PYPDF2. The PDF contains a table which is generated by : class HTMLMixin: HTML2FPDF_CLASS = HTML2FPDF def write_html(self, text, *args, **kwargs): """Parse HTML and convert it to PDF""" …
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Python3 fpdf is giving me an error latin-1 codec can't encode character

When I run the code below I get the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\demo\test.py", line 11, in pdf.output("splintered.pdf") File "C:\demo\lib\site-packages\fpdf\fpdf.py", line 1065, in output …
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Line spacing is extremely large in pyfpdf multicell

I met this issue. When I used multi-cell to output multiple lines of texts in a cell, the line spacing in the cell is extremely large. I cannot find the possible function or parameters to tune and is there any buddy to solve this kind of issue?
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FPDF2 Python : How to calculate the multicell height after a long string inside?

I am having an issue calculating the correct height of a multicell in FPDF. I am running into issues of overlapping when using pdf.ln() as the content in the cell is overflowing. What can I do to dynamically solve this for any length of the…
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Python merge pdf's together with hyperlinks

I am trying to merge two pdf's together. The other pdf is table of contents that I create manually using fpdf that links to specific pages. The other pdf is the text where the table of content links to. from PyPDF2.merger imort…
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PyFPDF produces vertical text

Some time ago, I translated a PHP script to python, but I am getting a few problems more recently. (it's a script to generate voting ballots) The code: The full code is here: https://pastebin.com/ULAF1Nh5 The part that prints the voting options (the…
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Python maplotlib PNG and FPDF

I have a Python program that creates a lot of plots with matplotlib. These images are then compiled into a PDF report using Python fpdf module. The problem is, with PNGs produced with matplotlib, this is extremely slow. Each image takes…
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