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The ReportLab Open Source PDF library is a proven industry-strength
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python-based PDF generating solution, suitable for web publishers,
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developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and
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easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents.
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It is released by ReportLab Inc., under BSD license.
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It has the following features:
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- create professional portable documents
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- real document layout engine (Platypus)
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- flowable objects such as paragraphs, headlines, tables, images,
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graphics, etc.
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- arbitrary Type-1 fonts
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- bitmap images, vector graphics
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- library of reusable primitive shapes
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- extensible widget library
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- uses Python, a clean OO language
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- layered architecture
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- includes simple demos and more complex tools
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- allows for any data sources
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- fully available source code
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- strong community support
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- platform-independent
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- includes PythonPoint - PDF Presentation Tool
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If pil (Python Imaging library) is installed (it is available from
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Slackbuilds.org too), reportlab can use it for working with bitmap
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images.
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