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This article presents some of the major features introduced between *v2.5.3* & *v2.7.3* of `fpdf2`:

- Tables - Images & shapes - Fonts & text - Signing & encrypting documents - Annotations - Documentation & translated tutorials - What's coming next?


fpdf2 maintainer here.

I'd like to point out the multiple tutorials we have that could be of interest to the HackerNews community, to integrate fpdf2 with other tools: AWS lambdas, Django, Flask, streamlit, Matplotlib, SQLAlchemy, pdfrw... https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/UsageInWebAPI.html


The game was made to run on Sumatra PDF Reader. It won't work on Adobe Acrobat Reader. Apart from that, it should run fine on most computers, as Sumatra is very memory efficient!


189M reduced to 93M yes. But the PDF internal page streams are already compressed, which explain the limited effect of ZIP-compressing it.


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