ReportLab · PDF Processing With Python by Driscoll, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction

About the Author Conventions Setting up & Activating a Virtual Environment Dependencies Installation Configuration Reader Feedback Errata Code Examples

Part I - The ReportLab Toolkit Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Reportlab

The Canvas Object Canvas Methods Using Colors in ReportLab Adding a Photo The textobject Create a Page Break Canvas Orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape) Other methods A Simple Sample Application Wrapping Up

Chapter 2 - ReportLab and Fonts

Unicode / UTF8 is the Default The Standard Fonts Other Type-1 Fonts TrueType Fonts Asian Fonts Switching Between Fonts Wrapping Up

Chapter 3 - Intro to Page Layout

The Basics of PLATYPUS Changing Fixed Elements Across Pages Flowable Methods Frame Basics Templates Flowable Orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape) Wrapping Up

Chapter 4 - Paragraphs

Paragraph Styles Paragraph Markup Tags The Outermost Markup Tags Using Intra-Paragraph Markup Working with Fonts Superscripts & Subscripts Inserting Inline Images Numbering Paragraphs / Sections Bullets Wrapping Up

Chapter 5 - Tables

The Table’s Methods Applying Style to Your Table Cell Formatting Changing Fonts in Tables Line Commands Cell Alignment Alternating Background Colors Putting Paragraphs in Your Cells Adding Images to Cells Spanning Wrapping Up

Chapter 6 - Other Flowables

Preformatted XPreformatted The Image Flowable The Spacer Flowable PageBreak CondPageBreak KeepTogether How to Add a Table of Contents SimpleIndex ListFlowable / ListItem Wrapping Up

Chapter 7 - Creating Your Own Flowables

Creating a Line Flowable Creating a Bordered Textbox + Line Flowable Modifying a Pre-Existing Flowable Wrapping Up

Chapter 8 - Intro to Graphics and Charts

What is a Drawing? ReportLab’s Renderers The Coordinate System A Simple Drawing Supported Outputs Verifying Attributes Naming Shapes Charts and Graphs Labels Axes Bar Charts Line Charts Line Plots Pie Charts Adding Titles and Legends Odds and Ends Wrapping Up

Chapter 9 - Other Graphics

Shapes Widgets Bar Codes Wrapping Up

Chapter 10 - Creating Special Features in Your PDF

File Annotations Bookmarks Page Transitions Encryption Interactive Forms Wrapping Up

Part II - Tutorials and How-Tos Chapter 11 - Turning Data into PDFs

Getting Started Creating the Base Template Class Refactoring the EOB Class Creating a Multipage Document Using Real Data Consuming XML Wrapping Up

Chapter 12 - Custom Headers and Footers

A Naive Header Putting the Header on Every Page Adding a Logo Configurable Logos Adding Page Numbers Adding a Page Number of Total Headers + Footers Wrapping Up

Chapter 13 - Creating a PDF Library

Accepting Different Data Formats Multipage Data Files Custom Stylesheets Configuring Your Application Adding a Graphical User Interface Finishing the User Interface Wrapping Up

Chapter 14 - The PyPDF2 Package

Installation Extracting Metadata from PDFs Extracting Text from PDFs Splitting PDFs Merging Multiple PDFs Together Rotating Pages Overlaying / Watermarking Pages PDF Encryption Wrapping Up

Chapter 15 - The pdfrw Package

Extracting Information from PDF Splitting Merging / Concatenating Rotating Overlaying / Watermarking Pages Scaling Combining pdfrw and ReportLab Wrapping Up

Chapter 16 - Extracting and Exporting Data from PDFs

Extracting Text with PDFMiner Exporting Text via pdf2txt.py Extracting Text with Slate Exporting Your Data Exporting to XML Exporting to JSON Exporting to CSV Extracting Images Wrapping Up

Chapter 17 - Filling in PDF Forms

Creating a Simple Form Merging Overlays Other Ways to Fill Forms Using the pdfforms Package Wrapping Up

Chapter 18 - Converting Markup to PDF

rst2pdf WeasyPrint Pandoc LaTeX Wrapping Up

Chapter 19 - The PyFPDF Package

Installation Basic Usage Working with Fonts Drawing Adding Images Multipage Documents Headers and Footers Tables Transform HTML to PDF Web2Py Templates Wrapping Up

Appendix A - Adding SVG Files in ReportLab

Dependencies Installation Usage Drawing on the Canvas Adding an SVG to a Flowable Scaling SVGs in ReportLab Using SVG Plots from matplotlib in ReportLab Using svg2pdf Wrapping Up

Appendix B - Getting System Fonts

The fontTools Package Getting the System’s Fonts Wrapping Up

Appendix C - Creating a Color Demo

Getting the Colors Wrapping Up

Afterword and Thanks

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