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PyFPDF Reference Manual

The PyFPDF Reference Manual provides documentation for the PyFPDF library, detailing its functions and features. It highlights the differences from the original FPDF API, including naming conventions and additional functionalities such as dashed lines and HTML text printing. The manual includes a comprehensive list of methods for document creation and manipulation.

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PyFPDF Reference Manual

The PyFPDF Reference Manual provides documentation for the PyFPDF library, detailing its functions and features. It highlights the differences from the original FPDF API, including naming conventions and additional functionalities such as dashed lines and HTML text printing. The manual includes a comprehensive list of methods for document creation and manipulation.

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◦ Original FPDF API
◦ Additional API

Important: the original FPDF (PHP) naming convention is CamelCase. This library uses PEP8's
lower_case_with_underscores recommendation.

• accept_page_break - determine whether to issue automatic page break


• add_font - add a new font
• add_link - create an internal link
• add_page - add a new page
• alias_nb_pages - de�ne an alias for number of pages
• cell - print a cell
• close - terminate the document
• error - fatal error
• footer - page footer
• FPDF - constructor
• get_string_width - compute string length
• get_x - get current x position
• get_y - get current y position
• header - page header
• image - output an image
• line - draw a line
• link - put a link
• ln - line break
• multi_cell - print text with line breaks
• output - save or send the document
• page_no - page number
• rect - draw a rectangle
• set_author - set the document author
• set_auto_page_break - set the automatic page breaking mode
• set_compression - turn compression on or off
• set_creator - set document creator
• set_display_mode - set display mode
• set_draw_color - set drawing color
• set_�ll_color - set �lling color
• set_font - set font
• set_font_size - set font size
• set_keywords - associate keywords with document
• set_left_margin - set left margin
• set_line_width - set line width
• set_link - set internal link destination
• set_margins - set margins
• set_right_margin - set right margin
• set_subject - set document subject
• set_text_color - set text color
• set_title - set document title
• set_top_margin - set top margin
• set_x - set current x position

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Reference manual - PyFPDF [Link]
• set_xy - set current x and y positions
• set_y - set current y position
• text - print a string
• write - print �owing text

These features are not available in the original FPDF and were implemented after forking.

• dashed_line - draw a dashed line


• ellipse - draw an ellipse
• rotate - rotation around a given center
• set_doc_option - set document options
• set_stretching - set horizontal font stretching
• write_html - print text with HTML markup

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