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Lucas-C··on Fpdf2 Latest New Features
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?

Lucas-C··on Fpdf 2.5.2 / SVG support and borb
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

Lucas-C··on I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?
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!
Lucas-C··on I made a video game out of a PDF. It has 200 000 pages. Can you beat it?
189M reduced to 93M yes. But the PDF internal page streams are already compressed, which explain the limited effect of ZIP-compressing it.