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Other utilities⚓︎

PyPDFForm offers additional utilities similar to other PDF libraries.

This section of the documentation uses this PDF as an example.

Blank PDFs⚓︎

Use the BlankPage class with PdfWrapper to create new blank PDFs.

The following example generates a PDF with a single blank page:

from PyPDFForm import BlankPage, PdfWrapper

blank_pdf = PdfWrapper(BlankPage())

blank_pdf.write("output.pdf")

By default, BlankPage generates a letter-size (612 x 792 points or 8.5 x 11 inches) blank PDF page. To change the dimensions, specify width and height (in points) when you instantiate the object:

from PyPDFForm import BlankPage, PdfWrapper

blank_pdf = PdfWrapper(BlankPage(width=595.35, height=841.995)) # A4 size

blank_pdf.write("output.pdf")

To create a blank PDF with multiple pages, multiply the BlankPage object by the number of pages you need:

from PyPDFForm import BlankPage, PdfWrapper

blank_pdf = PdfWrapper(BlankPage() * 3) # 3 pages of letter size

blank_pdf.write("output.pdf")

Extract pages⚓︎

The PdfWrapper object has a .pages attribute, which is a list of PdfWrapper objects representing individual pages:

from PyPDFForm import PdfWrapper

first_page = PdfWrapper("sample_template.pdf").pages[0]
first_page.fill(
    {
        "test": "test_1",
        "check": True,
    },
)

first_page.write("output.pdf")

Merge multiple PDFs⚓︎

You can merge multiple PDF files by adding their PdfWrapper objects. For example, to merge this PDF and this PDF:

from PyPDFForm import PdfWrapper

pdf_one = PdfWrapper("dummy.pdf")
pdf_two = PdfWrapper("sample_template.pdf")
merged = pdf_one + pdf_two

merged.write("output.pdf")

from PyPDFForm import PdfWrapper

pdf_one = PdfWrapper("dummy.pdf")
pdf_two = PdfWrapper("sample_template.pdf")
merged = pdf_two.pages[0] + pdf_one + pdf_two.pages[1:]

merged.write("output.pdf")

Change PDF version⚓︎

PyPDFForm allows you to modify the PDF version up to 2.0:

from PyPDFForm import PdfWrapper

new_version = PdfWrapper("sample_template.pdf").change_version("2.0")
new_version.write("output.pdf")