September 5, 2019 by
Mike There are times when you want to rotate images or other objects in ReportLab while creating a PDF. For example, you might want to rotate an image by 45 degrees for watermarking purposes. Or you might need an image that runs vertically along one of the edges of the PDF. You can rotate images by […]
In honor of PyCon 2019 that is starting this week, I am putting three of my books on sale. You can get any of the following books for $9.99 through May 6th by clicking on the links: Python 201: Intermediate Python ReportLab - PDF Processing with Python Jupyter Notebook 101 Python 201 is a fun […]
I recently released a new book entitled ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python. In celebration of a successful launch, I have decided to do a little contest. Rules Post a comment telling me why you would want a copy The most clever or heartfelt commenter will be chosen by me The contest will run starting now […]
My latest book, ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python is now available for purchase. 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 […]
The ReportLab toolkit allows you to create interactive fillable forms. The PDF standard actually has a fairly rich set of interactive elements. ReportLab doesn't support all of these elements, but it does cover most of them. In this section, we will look at the following widgets: checkbox radio choice listbox textfield All of these widgets […]
Fillable forms have been a part of Adobe's PDF format for years. One of the most famous examples of fillable forms in the United States are documents from the Internal Revenue Service. There are lots of government forms that use fillable forms. There are many different approaches for filling in these forms programmatically. The most […]
