This document discusses creating PDF documents using the ReportLab library in Python. It provides an overview of ReportLab, how to install it, and a basic example of using the pdfgen canvas to draw strings and lines to create a simple PDF file. Code snippets are provided to demonstrate how to set font sizes and styles, draw strings at specific coordinate locations, add lines, and save the PDF output. Potential applications for form letters and mail merges are also mentioned.

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6. PDF- Portable Document Format
ReportLab :
---Open source python libraries for pdf creation.
---ReportLab is fast ,flexible, and fully cross platform
---The ReportLab library directly creates PDF based on
your graphics commands

7. Installing syntax:
---sudo apt-get install python-pip
---pip install reportlab
The pdfgen package is the lowest level interface for
generating PDF documents.
A pdfgen program is essentially a sequence of instructions for
"painting" a document onto a sequence of pages

8. The interface object which provides the painting
operations is the pdfgen canvas.
The canvas should be thought of as a sheet of
white paper with points on the sheet identified using
Cartesian (X,Y) coordinates
--default have the (0,0) origin point at the lower
bottom left corner of the page.

9. A simple example program that uses a canvas follows.
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("form.pdf", pagesize=letter)
c.setFont('Helvetica', 12)
c.drawString(30,750,'OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE')
c.drawString(30,735,'OF ACME INDUSTRIES')
c.drawString(500,750,"12/12/2010")
c.line(480,747,580,747)
c.drawString(275,725,'AMOUNT OWED:')
c.drawString(500,725,"$1,000.00")
c.line(378,723,580,723)
c.drawString(30,703,'RECEIVED BY:')
c.line(120,700,580,700)
c.drawString(120,703,"JOHN DOE")
c.save()

10. output

11. ● If you’re in advertising or do any kind of work with form
letters
● For that we want to import the following module
from reportlab.lib.enums import TA_JUSTIFYfrom reportlab.lib.enums import TA_JUSTIFY
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate,from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate,
Paragraph, Spacer, ImageParagraph, Spacer, Image
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet,from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet,
ParagraphStyleParagraphStyle
from reportlab.lib.units import inchfrom reportlab.lib.units import inch

12. ● doc=SimpleDocTemplate("form_letter.pdf",p
agesize=letter,
rightMargin=72,leftMargin=72,
topMargin=72,bottomMargin=18)
● styles=getSampleStyleSheet()
● styles.add(ParagraphStyle(name='Justify',
alignment=TA_JUSTIFY))
● Story.append(Paragraph(ptext,
styles["Normal"]))

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