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The first example any developer needs to understand the basics of ReportLab · json2pdf is the standard way ReportLab deploys a solution which accepts JSON input and produces PDF output

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The PDF document output is generated from the RML using the python module 'rml2pdf'. RML is normally used in conjuction with a templating system. All our examples include ReportLab’s Preppy templating system. It was developed in late 2000 and has been in continual production use ever since then.

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Chapter 7

If the pyphen python module is installed attribute hyphenationLang controls which language will be used to hyphenate words without explicit embedded hyphens. If embeddedHyphenation is set then attempts will be made to split words with embedded hyphens. Attribute uriWasteReduce controls how we attempt to split long uri's. It is the fraction of a line that we regard as too much waste. The default in module reportlab...

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The ReportLab Toolkit. An Open Source Python library for generating PDFs and graphics.

      » pip install reportlab

Published Feb 12, 2026

Version 4.4.10

Homepage https://www.reportlab.com/

Discussions

Is the Python PDF generator library ReportLab easy to learn?

Reportlab is A MESS! The documentation is very confusing, there aren't really any tutorials or YouTube videos to help you. I would avoid Reportlab. Maybe have a look at xhtml2pdf. It's based on Reportlab, but pretty easy to use. Although it's not really actively maintained. More on reddit.com

r/learnpython

January 16, 2021

Can anyone provide comment (pro or con) on ReportLab?

It's solid. I've been using ReportLab for over 12 years to produce medical forms among other things. The API has been remarkably stable over that time frame. Even though we produce thousands of pages of ReportLab output daily, I hardly ever think about it unless I've got a new project. More on reddit.com

r/Python

November 17, 2010

Problems with reportlab library

I'm not sure what you expect to see in the reportlab module. The tutorials I see don't do import reportlab, they do things like from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas: Python 3.10.6 (main, Mar 10 2023, 10:55:28) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import reportlab >>> dir(reportlab) ['Version', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__date__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__min_python_version__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', '_fake_import', 'cmp', 'os', 'sys'] >>> from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas >>> # works fine >>> import reportlab.pdfbase >>> # works fine >>> dir(reportlab.pdfbase) ['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', '_fontdata', '_fontdata_enc_macexpert', '_fontdata_enc_macroman', '_fontdata_enc_pdfdoc', '_fontdata_enc_standard', '_fontdata_enc_symbol', '_fontdata_enc_winansi', '_fontdata_enc_zapfdingbats', '_fontdata_widths_courier', '_fontdata_widths_courierbold', '_fontdata_widths_courierboldoblique', '_fontdata_widths_courieroblique', '_fontdata_widths_helvetica', '_fontdata_widths_helveticabold', '_fontdata_widths_helveticaboldoblique', '_fontdata_widths_helveticaoblique', '_fontdata_widths_symbol', '_fontdata_widths_timesbold', '_fontdata_widths_timesbolditalic', '_fontdata_widths_timesitalic', '_fontdata_widths_timesroman', '_fontdata_widths_zapfdingbats', 'pdfdoc', 'pdfmetrics', 'pdfutils', 'rl_codecs'] So just because you don't see pdfgen in the reportlab module doesn't mean you can't import pdfgen or parts of it. More on reddit.com

r/learnpython

June 4, 2023

complete reportlab API / Documentation?

I'm not familiar with reportlab in particular, but as a general rule, if you stumble upon open-source software that's poorly documented, just dive into their source code. Often there is extra documentation there, or at least code you can use to make sense of things (like parameter names, methods, etc.).

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