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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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Last week, while translating John Harper's micro-TTRPG World of Dungeons: Turbo Breakers, I discovered the wonderful world of one page dungeons, starting with Michael Prescott splendid production at trilemma.com and also the yearly One Page Dungeon Context. While crawling through the OPDC 2021 entries, I discovered a great map …
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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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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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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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Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been launched, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook. Diagram source: PPRuNe article on linkbacks The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a …
Read MoreSometimes, it's useful to print some source code on paper. And PDF is a very common file format, that you can be sure your printer will accept, and that will let you preview the final page layout. But how to quickly perform syntax-coloring and export to PDF ? I've been experimenting …
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