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Python snippets:

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