Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be exporting raw text to pdf document in tkinter using fpdf library. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the below library using the below command as shown below
pip install fpdf
Now we need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
app.py
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import tkinter as tk from tkinter import filedialog import fpdf # Create the main window window = tk.Tk() window.title("Text to PDF Converter") # Create a Text widget to display the text entered by the user text = tk.Text(window) text.pack() # Create a Button widget to trigger the conversion button = tk.Button(window, text="Convert to PDF", command=convert_to_pdf) button.pack() # Run the main loop window.mainloop() |
As you can see we are importing the tkinter and fpdf library. And then we are displaying the input field where the user will enter the raw text and then we have the button to export the text to the pdf document. And if we click the button then we will be showing the filedialog to save the pdf document with the custom filename. And then we are adding the text field and button widgets to the screen using the pack() method.
And now we need to write the convert_to_pdf() function where we will be converting the raw text to pdf document as shown below
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def convert_to_pdf(): # Get the text from the Text widget text_content = text.get("1.0", "end") # Create a PDF object pdf = fpdf.FPDF() # Add a page pdf.add_page() # Set the font pdf.set_font("Arial", size=12) # Add the text to the PDF pdf.multi_cell(0, 10, txt=text_content) # Save the PDF to a file filepath = filedialog.asksaveasfilename(defaultextension=".pdf") pdf.output(filepath) |
As you can see inside the above function we are getting the data submitted inside the input field and then we are making a new pdf document using the fpdf() constructor and then inside it we are adding the new page inside the pdf document using the add_page() method and then we are setting the font inside the pdf document using the set_font() method and then we are inserting the text inside the pdf document using the multi_cell() method here inside this method we are passing the x and y coordinates and then thirdly we are passing the actual text to be inserted inside the pdf document. And lastly we are saving the pdf document by showing a custom filedialog as shown below
FULL SOURCE CODE
app.py
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import tkinter as tk from tkinter import filedialog import fpdf # Create the main window window = tk.Tk() window.title("Text to PDF Converter") # Create a Text widget to display the text entered by the user text = tk.Text(window) text.pack() # Create a function to convert the text to a PDF document def convert_to_pdf(): # Get the text from the Text widget text_content = text.get("1.0", "end") # Create a PDF object pdf = fpdf.FPDF() # Add a page pdf.add_page() # Set the font pdf.set_font("Arial", size=12) # Add the text to the PDF pdf.multi_cell(0, 10, txt=text_content) # Save the PDF to a file filepath = filedialog.asksaveasfilename(defaultextension=".pdf") pdf.output(filepath) # Create a Button widget to trigger the conversion button = tk.Button(window, text="Convert to PDF", command=convert_to_pdf) button.pack() # Run the main loop window.mainloop() |
