Page breaks¶

By default, fpdf2 will automatically perform page breaks whenever a cell or the text from a write() is rendered at the bottom of a page with a height greater than the page bottom margin.

This behaviour can be controlled using the set_auto_page_break and accept_page_break methods.

Manually trigger a page break¶

Simply call .add_page().

Inserting the final number of pages of the document¶

The special string {nb} will be substituted by the total number of pages on document closure. This special value can changed by calling alias_nb_pages().

will_page_break¶

will_page_break(height) lets you know if adding an element will trigger a page break, based on its height and the current ordinate (y position).

Unbreakable sections¶

In order to render content, like tables, with the insurance that no page break will be performed in it, on the can use the FPDF.unbreakable() context-manager:

pdf = fpdf.FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font("Times", size=16)
line_height = pdf.font_size * 2
col_width = pdf.epw / 4  # distribute content evenly
for i in range(4):  # repeat table 4 times
    with pdf.unbreakable() as doc:
        for row in data:  # data comes from snippets on the Tables documentation page
            for datum in row:
                doc.cell(col_width, line_height, f"{datum} ({i})", border=1)
            doc.ln(line_height)
    print('page_break_triggered:', doc.page_break_triggered)
    pdf.ln(line_height * 2)
pdf.output("unbreakable_tables.pdf")

An alternative approach is offset_rendering() that allows to test the results of some operations on the global layout before performing them "for real":

with pdf.offset_rendering() as dummy:
    # Dummy rendering:
    dummy.multi_cell(...)
if dummy.page_break_triggered:
    # We trigger a page break manually beforehand:
    pdf.add_page()
    # We duplicate the section header:
    pdf.cell(text="Appendix C")
# Now performing our rendering for real:
pdf.multi_cell(...)