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ReportLab is an open source Python library that generates PDFs. It offers two main tools for creating PDFs: direct drawing to a PDF canvas and Platypus, an object-oriented document building framework (All can be combined). Unlike its commercial variant (ReportLab Plus) ReportLab does not support the use of rml to generate PDFs.

This is a basic example of usage:

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.units import inch

c = canvas.Canvas("hello.pdf")

c.translate(inch,inch)  # move the origin up and to the left
c.setFont("Helvetica", 80)  # define a large font

c.setStrokeColorRGB(0.2,0.5,0.3)  # choose some colors
c.setFillColorRGB(1,0,1)

c.rect(inch,inch,6*inch,9*inch, fill=1)  # draw a rectangle
c.rotate(90)  # make text go straight up
c.setFillColorRGB(0,0,0.77)  # change color

# say hello (note after rotate the y coord needs to be negative!)
c.drawString(3*inch, -3*inch, "Hello World")

c.showPage()
c.save()

The primary support documents for ReportLab are the ReportLab PDF Library User Guide and the ReportLab PDF API Reference.