Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io

pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022.

It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries.

I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂

What can it do & what's next?

Find out by reading the full article

Added

• support for Output Intents on document level - thanks to @lka
• support for shading patterns (gradients) - thanks to @andersonhc - PR 1334
• support for setting a minimal row height in tables
• support for v_align at the row level in tables
• new optional reset_page_indices parameter for insert_toc_placeholder()
• support for strikethrough text
• support for first_line_indent in text_region.Paragraph
• new ViewerPreferences.print_scaling
• documentation on fpdf2 internals
• documentation on generating Aztec Codes
• added Slovenian translation of the tutorial: Vodič - thanks to @DeepBlackHole
• support for adding TrueType fonts that are missing the .notdef glyph - issue 1161 - thanks to @spacegaori
• improved SVG image parsing speed by 50% to 70% - thanks to @petri-lipponen-movesense - PR 1350
• added tutorial "tuto7" (in English and German) with documentation to create PDF/A files with fpdf2 - thanks to @lka

  Fixed

• FPDF.write_html(): Fixed rendering of content following <a> tags; now correctly resets emphasis style post </a> tag: hyperlink styling contained within the tag authority. - issue 1311
• FPDF.footer() does not "leak" its text style to the table of contents anymore
• FPDF.table(): Fixed heading styles containing underline failing to render.
• FPDF.ln(): the method now allows a value of 0 to be provided for h.
• font optimization: only include fonts effectively used in the final PDF document. Fonts added via set_font() or add_page() but not actually used in the document are no longer included in the final output. This reduces file size and improves performance, especially for documents with many fallback fonts. - issue 1382
• a KeyError was raised in some specific cases when auto-downscaling images - issue 1409

  Changed

• heading rows of tables are never rendered "alone" on a page anymore

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Added

• new parameters new_x and new_y for cell() and multi_cell(), replacing ln=0, thanks to @gmischler
• new add_highlight() method to insert highlight annotations: documentation
• new offset_rendering() method: documentation
• new .text_mode property: documentation
• the page structure of the documentation has been revised, with a new page about adding text, thanks to @gmischler
• a warning is now raised if a context manager is used inside an unbreakable() section, which is not supported

Changed

• local_context() can now "scope" even more properties, like blend_mode: documentation

Fixed

• No font properties should be leaked anymore after using markdown or in any other situations (cf. #359), thanks to @gmischler
• If multi_cell(align="J") is given text with multiple paragraphs (text followed by an empty line) at once, it now renders the last line of each paragraph left-aligned,
  instead of just the very last line (cf. #364), thanks to @gmischler
• a regression: now again multi_cell() always renders a cell, even if txt is an empty string - cf. #349
• a bug with string width calculation when Markdown is enabled - cf. #351
• a few bugs when parsing some SVG files - cf. #356, #358 & #376
• a bug when using multi_cell(..., split_only=True) inside an unbreakable section - cf. #359

Deprecated

• The parameter ln to cell() and multi_cell() is now deprecated, use new_x and new_y instead.
• The parameter center to cell() is now deprecated, use align="C" instead.

Displaying deprecation warnings

DeprecationWarnings are not displayed by Python by default.

Hence, every time you use a newer version of fpdf2, we strongly encourage you to execute your scripts
with the -Wd option (cf. documentation)
in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.

This can also be enabled programmatically with warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning).

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  ...
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