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 introduce the reader to other Python PDF packages.

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!