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• CMYK and Pantone ink overprinting (Python) by damian
  
  - 1 year, 4 months
  Example of overprinting inks on top of one another to mix colours.
• Spreadsheet Table (Python) by tomaszswiderski
  
  - 1 year, 4 months
  Use spreadsheet-like tables inside your PDFs
• Using RML from PHP (mixed) by damian
  
  - 1 year, 10 months
  This is a sample project which takes user input from an HTML form and generates a PDF containing what the user submitted
• Creating a PDF in memory from within a web application (Python) by damian
  
  - 1 year, 10 months
  Simple Django web application view for dynamically creating a PDF from RML
• Creating a PDF on disk from RML (XML) (Python) by damian
  
  - 1 year, 10 months
  Simple example using rml2pdf to generate a PDF document on disk from RML
• Spreadsheet Table for Platypus (Python) by tomaszswiderski
  
  - 1 year, 11 months
  Evaluate formulas at runtime and repeat bottom rows in ReportLab tables.
• TOC with clickable links in RML (XML) by damian
  
  - 1 year, 11 months
  Creates a Table of contents in RML, with clickable links that take you to the appropriate page in the document
• TOC with clickable links (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years
  Creates a TOC like snippet 8, but with clickable text
• Alpha Colours (transparency for cmyk) (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 1 month
  Illustrate alpha for CMYK (actually PCMYK) colors
• Colourising code with Pygments (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 1 month
  You can easily include colourised code samples in your ReportLab scripts
• Alpha Colours (transparency) (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 1 month
  Simple usage of transparent colours.
• Table of contents (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 1 month
  An easy way to generate table of contents.
• Line Plot (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 2 months
  A line plot with legend
• A breakdown pie chart (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 2 months
  A breakdown pie chart
• A Vertical Bar Chart (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 2 months
  Vertical Bar Chart
• Just another ordinary pie chart (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 2 months
  a basic pie chart made with reportlab library
• Simple Pie Chart (Python) by rptlab
  
  - 2 years, 2 months
  Create a simple Pie chart that can save itself into PDF.