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ReportLab - Automates various types of reporting

ReportLab is a PDF library suitable for web publishers, developers or creative design professionals who need to create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents. It was developed to fill the reporting needs of large financial institutions.

ReportLab uses the 'Platypus' layout engine, which builds documents from components like headlines, paragraphs, fonts, tables, bitmap images, vector graphics, etc. It places these flowable elements in a document "story" following a set of templates for frames, pages and the entire document itself. It supports the standard 14 PostScript fonts, custom embedded Type-1 fonts, and Asian fonts.

The included graphics subpackage provides a set of primitive shapes as well as reusable widgets building on them. Sample collections include bar charts, line charts and pie charts. Different renderers can be used to create vector graphics (in fact, even full document pages) as individual components in PDF, EPS, and bitmap formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and PICT.

Obtaining

Web page http://www.reportlab.org/
Source tarball http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/ReportLab_1_19.tgz
Source information http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html
Version 1.19 (stable) released on 2004-01-21

Licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available in PDF format from http://www.reportlab.com/docs/userguide.pdf

Support contacts

Help List	<reportlab-users@reportlab.org> http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users
Bug Database	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=682&atid=100682
Support	Paid consulting and support available from http://www.reportlab.org/support.html

Project contacts

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@cvs.reportlab.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/reportlab http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=682
Interfaces	library
Programs	Platypus
Source languages	C, Python
Use requirements	Python 1.5 or higher

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-06-10
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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