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I wrote my last post on fpdf2 18 months ago. We released 7 more versions of fpdf2 since then! This article will present some of the major features introduced since v2.7.3 to v2.8.1 of fpdf2: click on the buttons below to reveal the various changes brought …
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Pylint is a great static code analyser for Python code. I have been using it for several years, in various projects, and it's simple to use yet very powerful. I even contributed to Pylint by submitting a new rule a few years ago : implicit-str-concat. For an introduction to Pylint, you …
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I wrote my latest post on fpdf2 almost a year ago. As we just released a new version, v2.7.3, this is the time to mention some recent additions to this library! 😊 This article will present some of the major features introduced between v2.5.3 & v2.7.3 …
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Following last week animated PDF adventure, I have been reading a series of one page dungeons... And yesterday I had the opportunity to play the best one in my opinion: The Sky-Blind Spire by Michael Prescott. It has everything I love on one page: a maze to explore, mysteries to …
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fpdf2 is a simple & fast PDF creation library for Python that I have been maintaining since mid-2020. In this article, I'm going to present some of the new features that landed since my last post on the subject. Hence, this will cover versions 2.5.0, 2.5.1 & 2 …
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Last month, I realized late that October was hacktoberfest month! This online event is a month-long celebration (October 1-31) of open source software run in partnership with different software companies, with a focus on encouraging contributions to open source projects. While I participated in the 2019 edition as a contributor …
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I have been amazed recently at the diversity of contributors on the fpdf2 project, coming from all around the world! Then I thought it would be nice to visualize this diversity by building a world map of all contributors locations. There it is: Click on the image to access an …
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fpdf2 is a minimalist PDF creation library for Python that I am maintaining. With the release yesterday of its v2.4.0, I'm going to present some of its notable new features since the latest minor version. https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ JPEG images …
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Undying Dusk is a video game in a PDF format, with a gameplay based on exploration and logic puzzles, in the tradition of dungeon crawlers. A curse set by the Empress keeps the world in an eternal dusk. You have recently found shelter in an eerie monastery. Featuring: ~ 200 000 …
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Today, I am happy to announce version 2.3.0 of fpdf2, code name: Unbreakable! https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ Why Unbreakable? As a tribute to M. Night Shyamalan movie Because using fpdf2, your Python code can never break! ... Just kidding, I would be …
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fpdf2, the library I mentioned in my previous post, cannot parse existing PDF files. However, other Python libraries can be combined with fpdf2 in order to add new content to existing PDF files. This page provides several examples of doing so using pdfrw, a great zero-dependency pure Python library dedicated …
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Today, I am happy to announce a new version 2.2.0 of fpdf2 ! https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ During the last few months, I contributed a few improvements to fpdf2, David Ankin fork of PyFPDF, the user-friendly Python library to generate PDFs: from …
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