How To Generate PDF Files Using FPDF In Python
Posted By : Nikhil Verma | 29-Sep-2021
Django
What is FPDF?
PYFPDF is a library in Python, it is used for pdf file document generation. If we talk about the feature then we can customize like we can modify the page format, margin, unit, automatic line break and more.
How to install the FPDF library?
pip install pypdf2
By using this command on the terminal you can install this library on your system.
How Developers Can Use This Library?
Step-1: Create django project:
django-admin startproject generate_pdf
Step-2: create django app:
python manage.py startapp pdf_app
Step-3: Install FPDF library
pip install fpdf2
Step-4: Create a template directory
mkdir template
Step-5: Set the path of template director in settings.py file
Step-6: Create html file under the template directory
touch index.html
Step-7: Inside of html file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PDF Report</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-+0n0xVW2eSR5OomGNYDnhzAbDsOXxcvSN1TPprVMTNDbiYZCxYbOOl7+AMvyTG2x" crossorigin="anonymous">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container shadow"
style="max-width: 640px; margin: auto; margin-top: 2em; padding: 2em">
<h4>To generate a report, please click the button below:</h4>
<a class="btn btn-success" href="/report">Report</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Step-8: Create Two method inside of app views.py file
from django.shortcuts import render
from fpdf import FPDF
from django.http import FileResponse
def index(request):
context = {}
return render(request, "index.html", context = context)
def report(request):
sales = [
{"item": "Speaker", "amount": "$120,00"},
{"item": "UPS", "amount": "$10,00"},
{"item": "PS5", "amount": "$1 000 000,00"},
]
pdf = FPDF('L', 'mm', 'A4')
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font('courier', 'B', 16)
pdf.cell(40, 10, 'Customer Order Items:',0,1)
pdf.cell(40, 10, '',0,1)
pdf.set_font('courier', '', 12)
pdf.cell(200, 8, f"{'Item'.ljust(50)} {'Amount'.rjust(20)}", 1, 1)
pdf.line(10, 30, 150, 30)
pdf.line(10, 38, 150, 38)
for line in sales:
pdf.cell(200, 8, f"{line['item'].ljust(50)} {line['amount'].rjust(20)}", 0, 1)
pdf.output('report.pdf', 'F')
return FileResponse(open('report.pdf', 'rb'), as_attachment=True, content_type='application/pdf')
Step-9: Set the url for the method in Application urls.py file
Inside of urls.py file
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index),
path('report',views.report)
]
Step-10: Include this urls.py file in project urls.py file
from django.urls import path,include
path('', include('app.urls'))
Step-11: Execute the program
python manage.py runserver
Click on -> http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Click on -> Report
If you follow the above steps, you will get a pdf file. This step makes it easy to generate pdf documents.
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