pyspdf

a small and simple pdf renderer based on pygtk

Installation

Download the latest release from /releases/latest.

Either copy the pyspdf/ directory to your desired location or install via

cd /path/to/extracted/files
pip install .

Features

• pdf creation
• direct printing from pygtk GUI application
• rendering of images
• rendering of lines
• rendering of text (autosplitting of text on multiple pages possible)
• rendering of tables (autosplitting of table on multiple pages possible)

Usage

The general usage is as following. Derive a class from pyspdf.PDF and implement the methods _paginate() and _draw_page(). The former method can prepare content for rendering and MUST set the page count via _set_page_count(). The latter is called for each page to render and has to draw all the content.

To render the pdf call the method save_to_file(%filename%). Inside a pygtk GUI application you can also call the method show_print_dialog(), which shows the default print dialog to directly print the rendered content.

Example

import pyspdf as pdf

class SamplePDF(pdf.PDF):

    def _paginate(self, op, ctx):
        self._set_page_count(1)
    
    def _draw_page(self, op, ctx, no):
    
        pdf.Line(ctx, dx=self.w-20, dy=0,
            fmt=pdf.LineFormat(width=1, style="solid"),
        ).draw(10,10)
        
        pdf.Text(ctx,
            "This is a sample text",
            fmt=pdf.TextFormat(size=20),
        ).draw(10,40)
    
try:
    samplepdf = SamplePDF()
    samplepdf.save_to_file("example_line.pdf")
except pdf.RenderError as e:
    print(e.code, e.args)

For more detailed examples see the example files in the example/ folder.