"Test issue 65: twitter.png error (urlopen, transparency, internal regex error)" from fpdf import FPDF, FPDF_VERSION pdf=FPDF() pdf.compress = False pdf.add_page() png = "https://g.twimg.com/Twitter_logo_blue.png" pdf.image(png, x = 15, y = 15) fn = 'issue65.pdf' pdf.output(fn,'F') import os try: os.startfile(fn) except: os.system("xdg-open \"%s\"" % fn)