Create a PDF with 500 pages using `faker-file`

create_pdf.py

from faker import Faker
from faker_file.base import DynamicTemplate
from faker_file.providers.pdf_file import PdfFileProvider
from faker_file.providers.pdf_file.generators import reportlab_generator
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
from reportlab.platypus import PageBreak, Paragraph

FAKER = Faker()
FAKER.add_provider(PdfFileProvider)


# Add page break function
def pdf_add_page_break(provider, generator, story, data, counter, **kwargs):
    # Insert a page break
    story.append(PageBreak())


# Add paragraph function
def pdf_add_paragraph(provider, generator, story, data, counter, **kwargs):
    # Insert a paragraph
    styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
    style_paragraph = styles["Normal"]
    style_paragraph.fontName = generator.font_name
    pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont(generator.font_name, generator.font_path))
    content = provider.generator.text(max_nb_chars=5_000)
    paragraph = Paragraph(content, style_paragraph)
    story.append(paragraph)


# Create a file with text of 1_000 pages
pdf_file = FAKER.pdf_file(
    pdf_generator_cls=reportlab_generator.ReportlabPdfGenerator,
    content=DynamicTemplate(
        [
            (pdf_add_paragraph, {}),
            (pdf_add_page_break, {}),
        ] * 500  # Number of pages specified here
    )
)

requrements.txt

faker-file
reportlab