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Install Python

A ctypes binding: no compiled module, no build step.

1. Get the package

The download is public and needs no key — unlicensed output carries an evaluation watermark and nothing else is restricted. The package file is python.zip.

Download python

2. Check your platform

Two separate facts per platform: whether a licence key for this package covers it, and whether the download ships an engine binary for it.

3. Install

pip install lumaspdf
# or: unzip python.zip and import lumaspdf from it

4. Licence it

A licence is one key string, set once at startup. Buying one and installing it is covered by how licensing works; until then the engine runs fully functional with an evaluation watermark.

5. Your first PDF

The smallest complete program: create, write, close.

import lumaspdf

pdf = lumaspdf.CreatePDF('hello.pdf')
lumaspdf.Append(pdf)
lumaspdf.SetFont(pdf, 'Helvetica', 0, 24.0, True, 0)
lumaspdf.WriteFText(pdf, 0, 'Hello from LumasPDF')
lumaspdf.EndPage(pdf)
lumaspdf.CloseFile(pdf)
lumaspdf.DeletePDF(pdf)

Where next

• The full quick start Step by step, from unzip to a rendered page.
• Runnable examples Complete programs, each verified against a named release.
• The Python package page Editions, pricing, and everything in the download.
• API reference Every exported function, with declarations.