FPDF

As mentioned earlier the PDFReport library uses the FPDF library to create PDF documents. All code which accesses the FPDF library is encapsulated in the class Renderer.

Fonts

This library can use the font families that are available for FPDF. There are three core font families Helvetica, Courier, and Times that you can use in the PDFReport.

It is possible to add more fonts to the FPDF library. See the documentation of FPDF if you need that.

Page sizes

You can use all defined page sizes in the enum PageSize for reports that you generate with the PDFReport (e.g., PageSize.SIZE_A4 et cetera). The list of the possible page formats can be found in the enum.

Colors

Colors in this library are strings containing the RGB hex values as in HTML colors. To make it more visible that a string is a color you should add an ‘#’ at the first position of the string but it is not necessary. The hex characters in the string can be uppercase or lower case.

red = '#FF0000'

PDFReport uses the Pillow library to access image data. Therefore you can use the colors which are defined in Pillow by their names. The following codes shows how to do that.

from PIL import ImageColor

color = ImageColor.colormap["lime"]

Text Alignments

Text alignment which are supported by FPDF. There is an enum in PDFReport: TextAlign

• LEFT

• RIGHT

• CENTER

• JUSTIFY

Frame Alignments

There is an enum for horizontal and vertical alignments of frames. Horizontal alignment (HAlign)

• LEFT

• RIGHT

• CENTER

Vertical alignment (VAlign)

• TOP

• MIDDLE

• BOTTOM

So, whenever a function needs a parameter of HAlign or VAlign use one of these values.