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Python snippets:

• Simple Pie Chart by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  Create a simple Pie chart that can save itself into PDF.
• Just another ordinary pie chart by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  a basic pie chart made with reportlab library
• A Vertical Bar Chart by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  Vertical Bar Chart
• A breakdown pie chart by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  A breakdown pie chart
• Line Plot by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  A line plot with legend
• Table of contents by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  An easy way to generate table of contents.
• Alpha Colours (transparency) by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  Simple usage of transparent colours.
• Colourising code with Pygments by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  You can easily include colourised code samples in your ReportLab scripts
• Alpha Colours (transparency for cmyk) by rptlab

  
  13 years, 3 months

  Illustrate alpha for CMYK (actually PCMYK) colors
• TOC with clickable links by rptlab

  
  13 years, 2 months

  Creates a TOC like snippet 8, but with clickable text
• Spreadsheet Table for Platypus by rptlab

  
  13 years, 1 month

  Evaluate formulas at runtime and repeat bottom rows in ReportLab tables.
• Creating a PDF on disk from RML (XML) by rptlab

  
  13 years

  Simple example using rml2pdf to generate a PDF document on disk from RML
• Creating a PDF in memory from within a web application by rptlab

  
  13 years

  Simple Django web application view for dynamically creating a PDF from RML
• Spreadsheet Table by rptlab

  
  12 years, 6 months

  Use spreadsheet-like tables inside your PDFs
• CMYK and Pantone ink overprinting by rptlab

  
  12 years, 6 months

  Example of overprinting inks on top of one another to mix colours.
• Side Labelled Pie Chart by rptlab

  
  10 years, 7 months

  More intelligent labelling for pie charts
• Customized Labels for Pie Chart by rptlab

  
  10 years, 6 months

  Create fully customized labels for pie charts by changing colors, borders, ...
• Canvas text on an image by rptlab
  4 years, 8 months

  <p>This simple script illustrates drawing an image on a canvas and overdrawing with text.</p>