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Mike Driscoll
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ReportLab is the primary toolkit that I use for generating PDFs from scratch. However, I have found that there is another one called fpdf2. The fpdf2 package is a port of the “Free”-PDF package that was written in PHP.

This article will not be exhaustive in its coverage of the fpdf2 package. However, it will cover more than enough for you to use it effec…

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