pdfje 0.3.0

💁‍♂️ Why?

The most popular Python libraries for writing PDFs are quite old and inspired by Java and PHP. pdf’je is a modern, Pythonic library with a more declarative API.

🚀 How does it work?

Getting text on paper is super easy:

from pdfje import Document
Document("Olá Mundo!").write('hello.pdf')

but you can of course do more:

from pdfje import Page, Text, Font

myfont = Font.from_path('path/to/MyFont.ttf')
Document([
    Page("""Simple is better than complex.
            Complex is better than complicated."""),
    Page(),
    Page(Text("This text is bigger and fancier!", font=myfont, size=20))
]).write('hello.pdf')

See the docs for a complete overview.

👩‍⚕️ Is pdf’je right for me?

Try it if you:

• 🎯 Just want to get simple text into a PDF quickly

• 🪄 Prefer coding in a declarative and Pythonic style

• 🎁 Are looking for a lightweight, permissively licensed library

• 🔭 Enjoy experimenting and contributing to something new

Look elsewhere if you:

• 🕸️ Want to turn HTML into PDF – use wkhtmltopdf instead

• 🔬 Need perfectly typeset documents – use LaTeX instead

• 🚚 Want lots of features – use reportlab or fpdf2 instead

• ✂️ Need to parse or edit – use PyPDF2 or pdfsyntax instead

🥘 So, what’s cooking?

The following features are planned:

• 📑 Automatic line/page breaks

• 🎨 rich-inspired styles and inline markup

• 🖼️ Support for images

• ✏️ Basic drawing operations

• 🔗 Bookmarks and links

🎁 Installation

It’s available on PyPI.

pip install pdfje

🛠️ Development

• Install dependencies with poetry install.

• To write output files during tests, use pytest --output-path=<outpur-dir>