Page format and orientation

By default, a FPDF document has a A4 format with portrait orientation.

Other formats & orientation can be specified to FPDF constructor:

pdf = fpdf.FPDF(orientation="landscape", format="A5")

Currently supported formats are a3, a4, a5, letter, legal or a tuple (width, height). Additional standard formats are welcome and can be suggested through pull requests.

Per-page format and orientation

The following code snippet illustrate how to configure different page formats for specific pages:

from fpdf import FPDF

pdf = FPDF()
pdf.set_font("Helvetica")
for i in range(9):
    pdf.add_page(format=(210 * (1 - i/10), 297 * (1 - i/10)))
    pdf.cell(txt=str(i))
pdf.add_page(same=True)
pdf.cell(txt="9")
pdf.output("varying_format.pdf")

Similarly, an orientation parameter can be provided to the add_page method.

Page layout & zoom level

set_display_mode() allows to set the zoom level: pages can be displayed entirely on screen, occupy the full width of the window, use the real size, be scaled by a specific zooming factor or use the viewer default (configured in its Preferences menu).

The page layout can also be specified: single page at a time, continuous display, two columns or viewer default.

from fpdf import FPDF

pdf = FPDF()
pdf.set_display_mode(zoom="default", layout="TWO_COLUMN_LEFT")
pdf.set_font("helvetica", size=30)
pdf.add_page()
pdf.cell(txt="page 1")
pdf.add_page()
pdf.cell(txt="page 2")
pdf.output("two-column.pdf")

Viewer preferences

from fpdf import FPDF, ViewerPreferences

pdf = FPDF()
pdf.viewer_preferences = ViewerPreferences(
    hide_toolbar=True,
    hide_menubar=True,
    hide_window_u_i=True,
    fit_window=True,
    center_window=True,
    display_doc_title=True,
    non_full_screen_page_mode="USE_OUTLINES",
)
pdf.set_font("helvetica", size=30)
pdf.add_page()
pdf.cell(txt="page 1")
pdf.add_page()
pdf.cell(txt="page 2")
pdf.output("viewer-prefs.pdf")

Full screen

from fpdf import FPDF

pdf = FPDF()
pdf.page_mode = "FULL_SCREEN"
pdf.output("full-screen.pdf")