borb
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python. (by jorisschellekens)
fpdf2
Simple PDF generation for Python (by py-pdf)
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| borb | fpdf2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 66 | 23 | |
| 3,283 | 936 | |
| - | 5.1% | |
| 5.2 | 9.3 | |
| about 1 month ago | 4 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
borb
Posts with mentions or reviews of borb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
- Caffè Italia * 30/04/23
- Borb: the open source PDF engine
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Generating PDF from some sort of template (jinja2) with headers, footers, images, not just a printed HTML document.
Have you looked at borb? I’m not sure if it’s exactly what you need I found it useful when doing something similar to you
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looking for an "low dependency" or pythonesque way to generate PDF's
You might take a look at borb
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fpdf2.5.2 : SVG support and comparison with borb
I will also perform a quick comparison with the borb library.
- borb, the open-source pure Python PDF engine
- borb: the open-source pure Python PDF engine
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borb, the pure Python PDF library
Get borb from source on GitHub, or download using PyPi.
- borb v2.0.16
- borb, the open source pure Python PDF library: new release
fpdf2
Posts with mentions or reviews of fpdf2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
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Pylint strict base configuration
I recently used this approach on fpdf2: PR #780 Hardening Pylint config
- New fpdf2 release - 2.7.4 - Images can now be embedded as CMYK - Docs for using Pygal & FastAPI - Various bugfixes
- Pdfkit vs weasyprint ?
- New fpdf2 release - 2.7.0 - New methods table() and set_fallback_fonts() - keep_aspect_ratio - ICC Profiles
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Generating PDF files via FastAPI and sending the file to the user's email. (Currently using PyPDF2)
If you want to contribute to fpdf2, I would welcome a Pull Request to add an example of using it with FastAPI, in this documentation Markdown page: https://github.com/PyFPDF/fpdf2/blob/master/docs/UsageInWebAPI.md 😉
- New fpdf2 release - 2.6.1 - PDF encryption - skewing - markdown hyperlinks - Python 3.11
- New fpdf2 release - 2.6.0 - HTMLMixin not needed anymore - more HTML tags supported - demonstration Jupyter notebook
- looking for an "low dependency" or pythonesque way to generate PDF's
- New fpdf2 release - v2.5.7 - Support for subscript & superscript - set_page_background - embed_file - set_char_spacing
- New fpdf2 release - v2.5.6 - PDF document signing - greek tutorial - better SVG image parsing
What are some alternatives?
When comparing borb and fpdf2 you can also consider the following projects:
ReportLab
pikepdf - A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
rst2pdf - Use a text editor. Make a PDF.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
undying-dusk - The very first PDF video game
pdf2docx - Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.
oso - Oso is a batteries-included framework for building authorization in your application.
yellowbrick - Visual analysis and diagnostic tools to facilitate machine learning model selection.
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
python-anvil - Python library and CLI for the Anvil API