ReportLab Toolkit 2.5

ReportLab Toolkit is suitable for web publishers, developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents.

ReportLab Toolkit lets you create professional documents programmatically without being locked into one special technology and/or platform. It has grown over years in response to the real-world requirements of large financial institutions' reporting needs, making it the trusted proven foundation of existing enterprise solutions rather than a just a fancy gimmick or interesting library.

ReportLab Toolkit implements a flexible layout engine named Platypus that builds documents from components like headlines, paragraphs, fonts, tables, bitmap images, vector graphics, etc.

These flowable elements are placed in a document "story" following a set of templates for frames, pages and the entire document itself. In addition to the standard 14 PostScript fonts there is full support for custom embedded Type-1 as well as for Asian fonts.

The included graphics subpackage provides a set of primitive shapes as well as reusable widgets building on them. Among the sample collections is a very useful set of business chart diagrams, including line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. Different renderers can be used to create vector graphics (in fact, even full document pages) as individual components not onl

NOTE: ReportLab Toolkit is licensed and distributed under the BSD license.

Here are some key features of "ReportLab Toolkit":

· Create professional portable documents
· Real document layout engine (Platypus)
· Flowable objects such as paragraphs, headlines, tables, images, graphics, etc.
· Arbitrary Type-1 fonts
· Bitmap images, vector graphics
· Library of reusable primitive shapes
· Extensible widget library
· Uses Python, a clean OO language
· Layered architecture
· Includes simple demos and more complex tools
· Allows for any data sources
· Fully available source code
· Strong community support
· Platform-independent
· Includes PythonPoint - PDF Presentation Tool

Requirements:

· Distutils

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Brings several new features including increased support for high-end printing, QR barcodes, support for Python 2.7 and packaging improvements.