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The Easy Way To Create PDF With The ReportLab Toolkit



By AN Jay on October 2, 2008

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The ReportLab Open Source PDF library is a proven industry-strength PDF generating solution, that you can use for meeting your requirements and deadlines in enterprise reporting systems.

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This free Open Source PDF library is suitable for web publishers, developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents. It lets you create professional documents programmatically without being locked into one special technology and/or platform. It has grown over years in response to the real-world requirements of large financial institutions’ reporting needs, making it the trusted proven foundation of existing enterprise solutions rather than a just a fancy gimmick or interesting library.

Features

  • Create professional portable documents
  • Real document layout engine (Platypus)
  • Flowable objects such as paragraphs, headlines, tables, images, graphics, etc.
  • Arbitrary Type-1 fonts
  • Bitmap images, vector graphics
  • Library of reusable primitive shapes
  • Extensible widget library
  • Uses Python, a clean OO language
  • Layered architecture
  • Includes simple demos and more complex tools
  • Allows for any data sources
  • Fully available source code
  • Strong community support
  • Platform-independent
  • Includes PythonPoint – PDF Presentation Tool



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seems to be a powerful tool..will give it a try for sure

Thank for this resource. I have been looking for related PDF solution for quite sometimes.

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