I thought it would be fun to create a sample of the book so you can get an idea of what the book will be like. So I created a PDF that contains the first 3 chapters of the book for you. Download Sample Note that the format of this sample is not quite right […]
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I really like coming up with fun covers for my books. I also like to find new artists for each book so that they all end up looking unique. I do plan to re-use one or two artists at some point though. Anyway, for the ReportLab book I happened to stumble across Therese Larsson’s website and I really
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The ReportLab toolkit provides multiple ways for you to generate text on your PDFs. The most popular examples that I have seen are using canvas methods or using PLATYPUS. The canvas method that you will likely see the most is drawString. Here is an example: from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas(“hello.pdf”) c.drawString(100, 100, “Welcome
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After collating the various ideas that people have been giving me during the Kickstarter campaign, I have decided to firm up my table of contents. I had already planned to cover 80-90% or more of what was in ReportLab’s user guide, but in more depth, as I thought most of those topics should be covered
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Have you ever wondered how to create PDF Reports programmatically? If so, then this is the book for you! In ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python, you will learn how to generate PDFs using the popular Python programming language. The code in this book will run on all 3 major platforms: Windows Mac Linux ReportLab is used
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Reportlab is really nice tool for creating PDFs in Python. A little known fact is that they now support adding charts or graphs to your PDF. Previously if you wanted that functionality, you would have to do all the drawing code yourself. Unfortunately, the Reportlab guide doesn’t really explain how to use their charts, what
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Reportlab recently released version 3.1 which now fully supports Python 3 and Python 2.7. They had actually released a Python 3 compatible version about a month or so ago, but this one sounds like they’ve worked the bugs out of that initial release as this version also supports their commercial customers. I find this exciting
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Reportlab is a very flexible PDF creation package for Python. You can layout your documents using absolute positioning or by using Flowable objects, such as a Paragraph, a Table or Frame. You can even mix the two together! In this article, we will be looking at how to create some custom Flowables. For example, what
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The other day I had an interesting task I needed to complete with Reportlab. I needed to create a PDF in landscape orientation that had to be rotated 90 degrees when I saved it. To make it easier to lay out the document, I created a class with a flag that allows me to save
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Have you ever needed to add page numbers to your Reportlab generated PDF but didn’t know how? Well you’ve come to the right place. We’re going to look at how to add page number in three different circumstances: How to add page numbers with just the canvas object How to add page numbers using the
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This week I was trying to figure out how to make Reportlab do something I had never attempted before. Namely, I wanted to create about a half page’s worth of static text positioned exactly and then have a table of line items that could potentially fill the rest of the page and continue for N
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Have you ever wondered how to embed custom fonts in Reportlab? Or maybe you just want to switch fonts or change the font’s color. Well in this tutorial, we’ll take a look at all of these questions. You’ll need to go out and download a copy of Reportlab as it isn’t a part of the
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The Reportlab library is a great way to generate PDFs in Python. Recently, I noticed that it has the ability to do barcodes. I had heard about it being able to generate QR codes, but I hadn’t really dug under the covers to see what else it could do. In this tutorial, we’ll take a
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Recently I needed the ability to use Reportlab’s flowables, but place them in fixed locations. Some of you are probably wondering why I would want to do that. The nice thing about flowables, like the Paragraph, is that they’re easily styled. If I could bold something or center something AND put it in a fixed
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I was recently asked to convert a few hundred images into PDF pages. A friend of mine draws comics and my brother wanted to be able to read them on a tablet. Alas, if you had a bunch of files named something like this: ‘Jia_01.Jpg’, ‘Jia_02.Jpg’, ‘Jia_09.Jpg’, ‘Jia_10.Jpg’, ‘Jia_11.Jpg’, ‘Jia_101.Jpg’ the Android tablet would reorder
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