ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python

ReportLab has been around since the year 2000 and has remained the primary package that Python developers use for creating reports in the PDF format. It is an extremely powerful package that works across all the major platforms. This book will also introduce the reader to other Python PDF packages.

Table of Contents

Part I – The ReportLab Toolkit
Chapter 1 – Getting Started with Reportlab
Chapter 2 – ReportLab and Fonts
Chapter 3 – Intro to Page Layout
Chapter 4 – Paragraphs
Chapter 5 – Tables
Chapter 6 – Other Flowables
Chapter 7 – Creating Your Own Flowables
Chapter 8 – Intro to Graphics and Charts
Chapter 9 – Other Graphics
Chapter 10 – Creating Special Features in Your PDF

Part II – Tutorials and How-Tos
Chapter 11 – Turning Data into PDFs
Chapter 12 – Custom Headers and Footers
Chapter 13 – Creating a PDF Library
Chapter 14 – The PyPDF2 Package
Chapter 15 – The pdfrw Package
Chapter 16 – Extracting and Exporting Data from PDFs
Chapter 17 – Filling in PDF Forms
Chapter 18 – Converting Markup to PDF
Chapter 19 – The PyFPDF Package

Appendix A – Adding SVG Files in ReportLab
Appendix B – Getting System Fonts
Appendix C – Creating a Color Demo