adbmd/pdfme

Make PDFs easily

pdfme

This is a powerful library to create PDF documents easily.

The way you create a PDF document with pdfme is very similar to how you create documents with LaTex: you just tell pdfme at a very high level what elements you want to be in the document, without worrying about wrapping text in a box, positioning every element inside the page, creating the lines of a table, or the internals of the PDF Document Format. pdfme will put every element below the last one, and when a page is full it will add a new page to keep adding elements to the document, and will keep adding pages until all of the elements are inside the document. It just works.

If you want the power to place elements wherever you want and mess with the PDF Document Format internals, pdfme got you covered too. Give the docs a look to check how you can do this.

Main features

• You can create a document without having to worry about the position of each element in the document. But you have the possibility to place any element wherever you want too.
• You can add rich text paragraphs (paragraphs with text in different sizes, fonts, colors and styles).
• You can add tables and place whatever you want on their cells, span columns and rows, and change the fills and borders in the easiest way possible.
• You can add content boxes, a multi-column element where you can add paragraphs, images, tables and even content boxes themselves. The elements inside this content boxes are added from top to bottom and from left to right.
• You can add url links (to web pages), labels/references, footnotes and outlines anywhere in the document.
• You can add running sections, content boxes that will be included in every page you add to the document. Headers and footers are the most common running sections, but you can add running sections anywhere in the page.

Installation

You can install using pip:

pip install pdfme

Documentation

• Docs and examples: https://pdfme.readthedocs.io