pdfme.page

class pdfme.page.PDFPage(base, width, height, margin_top=0, margin_bottom=0, margin_left=0, margin_right=0)

Bases: object

Class that represents a PDF page, and has methods to add stream parts into the internal page PDF Stream Object, and other things like fonts, annotations and images.

This object have x and y coordinates used by the pdfme.pdf.PDF insance that contains this page. This point is called cursor in this class.

Parameters

  • base (PDFBase) – [description]

  • width (Number) – [description]

  • height (Number) – [description]

  • margin_top (Number, optional) – [description]. Defaults to 0.

  • margin_bottom (Number, optional) – [description]. Defaults to 0.

  • margin_left (Number, optional) – [description]. Defaults to 0.

  • margin_right (Number, optional) – [description]. Defaults to 0.

property y
Returns

The current vertical position of the page’s cursor, from top (0) to bottom. This is different from _y attribute, the position from bottom (0) to top.

Return type

Number

go_to_beginning()

Method to set the position of the cursor’s page to the origin point of the page, considering this page margins. The origin is at the left-top corner of the rectangle that will contain the page’s contents.

add(content)

Method to add some bytes (if a string is passed, it’s transformed into a bytes object) representing a stream portion, into this page’s PDF internal Stream Object.

Parameters

content (str, bytes) – the stream portion to be added to this page’s stream.

Returns

the id of the portion added to the page’s stream

Return type

int

add_font(font_ref, font_obj_id)

Method to reference a PDF font in this page, that will be used inside this page’s stream.

Parameters

  • font_ref (str) – the ref attribute of the pdfme.fonts.PDFFont instance that will be referenced in this page.

  • font_obj_id (PDFRef) – the object id of the font being referenced here, already added to a pdfme.base.PDFBase instance.

add_annot(obj, rect)

Method to add a PDF annotation to this page.

The object dict should have the keys describing the annotation to be added. By default, this object will have the following key/values by default: Type = /Annot and Subtype = /Link. You can include these keys in object if you want to overwrite any of the default values for them.

Parameters

  • obj (dict) – the annotation object.

  • rect (list) – a list with the following information about the annotation: [x, y, width, height].

Method to add a link annotation (a URI that opens a webpage from the PDF document) to this page.

Parameters

  • uri_id (PDFRef) – the object id of the action object created to open this link.

  • rect (list) – a list with the following information about the annotation: [x, y, width, height].

add_reference(dest, rect)

Method to add a reference annotation (a clickable area, that takes the user to a destination) to this page.

Parameters

  • dest (str) – the name of the dest being referenced.

  • rect (list) – a list with the following information about the annotation: [x, y, width, height].

add_image(image_obj_id, width, height)

Method to add an image to this page.

The position of the image will be the same as x and y coordinates of this page.

Parameters

  • image_obj_id (PDFRef) – the object id of the image PDF object.

  • width (int, float) – the width of the image.

  • height (int, float) – the height of the image.