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slack-desc libraries/reportlab: Updated for version 2.7. 2013-05-19 09:12:11 -04:00

The ReportLab Open Source PDF library is a proven industry-strength
python-based PDF generating solution, suitable for web publishers,
developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and
easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents.
It is released by ReportLab Inc., under BSD license.

It includes binary extensions (previously available separately)
_rl_accel and renderPM

It has the following features:
- create professional portable documents
- real document layout engine (Platypus)
- flowable objects (paragraphs, headlines, tables, images, graphics, etc.)
- arbitrary Type-1 fonts
- bitmap images, vector graphics
- library of reusable primitive shapes
- extensible widget library
- layered architecture
- includes simple demos and more complex tools
- allows for any data sources
- strong community support
- platform-independent
- includes PythonPoint - PDF Presentation Tool