Presentations¶

Presentation mode can usually be enabled with the CTRL + L shortcut.

As of june 2021, the features described below are honored by Adobe Acrobat reader, but ignored by Sumatra PDF reader.

Page display duration¶

Pages can be associated with a "display duration" until when the viewer application automatically advances to the next page:

from fpdf import FPDF

pdf = fpdf.FPDF()
pdf.set_font("Helvetica", size=120)
pdf.add_page(duration=3)
pdf.cell(text="Page 1")
pdf.page_duration = .5
pdf.add_page()
pdf.cell(text="Page 2")
pdf.add_page()
pdf.cell(text="Page 3")
pdf.output("presentation.pdf")

It can also be configured globally through the page_duration FPDF property.

Transitions¶

Pages can be associated with visual transitions to use when moving from another page to the given page during a presentation:

from fpdf import FPDF
from fpdf.transitions import *

pdf = fpdf.FPDF()
pdf.set_font("Helvetica", size=120)
pdf.add_page()
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 0")
pdf.add_page(transition=SplitTransition("V", "O"))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 1")
pdf.add_page(transition=BlindsTransition("H"))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 2")
pdf.add_page(transition=BoxTransition("I"))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 3")
pdf.add_page(transition=WipeTransition(90))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 4")
pdf.add_page(transition=DissolveTransition())
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 5")
pdf.add_page(transition=GlitterTransition(315))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 6")
pdf.add_page(transition=FlyTransition("H"))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 7")
pdf.add_page(transition=PushTransition(270))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 8")
pdf.add_page(transition=CoverTransition(270))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 9")
pdf.add_page(transition=UncoverTransition(270))
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 10")
pdf.add_page(transition=FadeTransition())
pdf.text(x=40, y=150, text="Page 11")
pdf.output("transitions.pdf")

It can also be configured globally through the page_transition FPDF property.