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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1131

create pdf with fpdf in python. can not move image to the right in a loop

I use FPDF to generate a pdf with python. i have a problem for which i am looking for a solution. in a folder "images", there are pictures that I would like to display each on ONE page. I did that - maybe not elegant. unfortunately i can't move the picture to the right. it looks like pdf_set_y won't work in the loop.

from fpdf import FPDF

from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join
onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir('../images') if isfile(join('../images', f))]


pdf = FPDF('L')
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font('Arial', 'B', 16)

onlyfiles = ['VI 1.png', 'VI 2.png', 'VI 3.png']
y = 10

for image in onlyfiles:
    pdf.set_x(10)
    pdf.set_y(y)
    pdf.cell(10, 10, 'please help me' + image, 0, 0, 'L')
    y = y + 210 #to got to the next page

    pdf.set_x(120)
    pdf.set_y(50)
    pdf.image('../images/' + image, w=pdf.w/2.0, h=pdf.h/2.0)

pdf.output('problem.pdf', 'F')

Would be great if you have a solution/help for me. Thanks alot greets alex

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5114

Answers (3)

Felipe Sierra
Felipe Sierra

Reputation: 187

You can check pdfme library. It's a powerful library in python to create PDF documents. You can add urls, footnotes, headers and footers, tables, anything you would need in a PDF document.

The only problem I see is that currently pdfme only supports jpg format for images. But if that's not a problem it will help you with your task.

Check the docs here.

Upvotes: 1

mechanical_meat
mechanical_meat

Reputation: 169414

I see the issue. You want to specify the x and y location in the call to pdf.image(). That assessment is based on the documentation for image here: https://pyfpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/image/index.html

So you can instead do this (just showing for loop here):

for image in onlyfiles:
    pdf.set_x(10)
    pdf.set_y(y)
    pdf.cell(10, 10, 'please help me' + image, 0, 0, 'L')
    y = y + 210 # to go to the next page

    # increase `x` from 120 to, say, 150 to move the image to the right
    pdf.image('../images/' + image, x=120, y=50, w=pdf.w/2.0, h=pdf.h/2.0)
    #                        new -> ^^^^^  ^^^^

Upvotes: 6

Joris Schellekens
Joris Schellekens

Reputation: 9032

disclaimer: I am the author of pText the library I will use in this solution.

Let's start by creating an empty Document:

pdf: Document = Document()

# create empty page
page: Page = Page()

# add page to document
pdf.append_page(page)

Next we are going to load an Image using Pillow

import requests
from PIL import Image as PILImage

im = PILImage.open(
        requests.get(
            "https://365psd.com/images/listing/fbe/ups-logo-49752.jpg", stream=True
        ).raw
    )

Now we can create a LayoutElement Image and use its layout method

    Image(im).layout(
        page,
        bounding_box=Rectangle(Decimal(20), Decimal(724), Decimal(64), Decimal(64)),
    )

Keep in mind the origin (in PDF space) is at the lower left corner.

Lastly, we need to store the Document

# attempt to store PDF
with open("output.pdf", "wb") as out_file_handle:
    PDF.dumps(out_file_handle, pdf)

You can obtain pText either on GitHub, or using PyPi There are a ton more examples, check them out to find out more about working with images.

Upvotes: 0

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