This is the code repository for the book, ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python by Michael Driscoll

ReportLab is the primary package that most Python developers use for creating PDFs programmatically. This book will take a deep dive into this package and teaches you how to use this versatile library.

This book covers the following topics:

• Creating PDFs with ReportLab Canvas methods
• Using PLATYPUS in ReportLab for Dynamic Reports
• Turning Data into Reports with ReportLab
• Splitting / Joining PDFs with PyPDF2 and pdfrw
• Rotating Pages
• PDF Security
• Merging PDFs
• and much, much more!

This book is for intermediate level Python programmers who would like to learn how to generate PDFs using Python. It also teaches how to modify pre-existing PDFs using Python.

You will need the ReportLab toolkit for generating PDFs. This book also covers PyPDF2 and pdfrw.

• Leanpub (PDF, epub and mobi)
• Amazon (Kindle and paperback)

Michael Driscoll has been an application developer using Python for over a decade. He is the author of the popular Python blog, The Mouse Vs. the Python as well as several other Python books including Python 101, Python Interviews and ReportLab - PDF Processing with Python.