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Python 3 FPDF Library Script to Export Text File to PDF File With Multiple Pages in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here: https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-fpdf-library-script-to-export-text-file-to-pdf-file-with-multiple-pages-in-terminal/
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you a
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Python script which actually converts a
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text file into PDF document so if you
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have a bunch of text inside a txt file
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something like this so I have this file
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here i will be converting this file to a
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PDF document using this Python
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open-source library
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FPDF so if I execute this script right
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here just let me just execute this I say
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python app py so just see on
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the it is saying that the module is not
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so first of all you need to install this
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module so fp pip install fpdf so it will
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install this and then if I execute the
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script so here you just need to replace
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the file name so the file name is filet
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txt so I will just replace this and
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execute this script you will see it will
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create the PDF saved
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as so if I open this now you will see
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that the PDF has been successfully
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inserted
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successfully with full formatting you
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will see multiple lines are there so let
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me just open it in the browser
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so your uh text file has been
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successfully converted to PDF document
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you will see
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that we have that bunch of text inside
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this txt file like this and we converted
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this to PDF so for
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uh making this application we are using
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this library FP PDF which is a very
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popular PHP PDF processing library but
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you can even use it inside Python as
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well so this is its official website
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FPDF
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library so for this you just need to
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install the Python module for this so
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just search for this module
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FPDF so this is the command here pip
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install FPDF so
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I simply install this i have given all
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the script in the description of the
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video so let me just show you the script
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here step by step how to do this so
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first of all just create a simple Python
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file and just import this
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FPDF from this we need to import this
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class
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FPDF and then we just need to initialize
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this FPDF library like this after that
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we just need to set some options for
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first of all you have a bunch of methods
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right here we will see you can set meta
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properties regarding your PDF document
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so one such method is uh set margins you
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can set the margin of the PDF document
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the left margin you can set the top
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margin all the four sides you can set
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the margin right
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here after setting the margin we can
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simply add a new page for adding the new
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page we have this method which is add
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underscore page so this will add a new
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page in the PDF document after adding a
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blank page now we can simply insert the
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text before that we can set the font
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here we can even set a custom font as
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well let's suppose you just need to
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provide the name of the font which is
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AIAL and then the size of the font you
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can even control it let's suppose I say
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20 and after that we read all the data
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which is there inside the filet txt so
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this file is present in the same
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directory so we are reading this
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file in the read mode so inside read
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mode and here we just need to provide
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the encoding which will be your
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UTF8 and then we just say as f and then
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we simply read the file f dot the read
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function so it will read all the text
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which is present in the txt file and
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store it inside your text variable after
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that we contains this function here
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which is multi- cell it will add the
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text in the PDF document you just need
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to provide the X coordinate and the Y
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coordinate and actually the
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text
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TXT and whatever is the
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text and then you just need to provide
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the alignment so J is the alignment
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after that we simply save the PDF file
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by using this output method and here you
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just provide the output PDF file name
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that's all so this is the overall script
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right here uh if
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I again execute this you will see it
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will first of all read
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the let me say python app py so you will
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see it will create this uh result dot
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PDF
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file and if I try to open this you will
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see now it has successfully splitted
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across multiple pages depending upon the
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length of the text here you will
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see as the text was larger you will see
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it has splitted the text into multiple
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pages so now it contains two pages so in
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this easy way you can create
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text you can create PDF document
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directly from the txt file using this
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package f PDF inside
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Python you can adjust the font size
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let's suppose I change the text size to
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40 so now you will see the text size
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will look like this so you can adjust
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the size here of the
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text i think 15 looks good
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so so if you need the full source code
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the link is given in the description so
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in this way you can make the PDF
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document using the text file also check
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out my website freemediattools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools