Python PDF Generation: From Beginner to Winner (ReportLab)

Here I talk about who am I and what you can expect from this course. Also pay attention, this course is not completed yet, I will add more resources and lectures over time. Don't worry It will be always with enough material for you to make something from zero to the end!

After this you will be able to:

• Create a PDF file with reportlab

• Set PDF title

• Create a reportlab Table

• Understand how to configure Table widths and heights

• Apply basic styles to a Table

• Structure the code for the final PDF

After this you will be able to:

• Add background color to a Table cell

• Center text horizontally and vertically in a Table cell

• Change text color

• Colors from Hexadecimal code

After this you will be able to:

• Add images to PDF Table cell

• Adjust image size to be proportional

• Center image horizontally and vertically in a Table cell

• Do a trick to put text over an image in a Table cell

After this you will be able to:

• Create inner tables

• Add a border below a Table cell

• Select multiple Table cells

• Increase Table cell text font size

After this you will be able to:

• Create Paragraphs

• Add style to a Paragraph

• Increase font size of a Paragraph

• Add space between Paragraphs

After this you will be able to:

• Add a list of Paragraphs to a Table cell

• Do basic Paragraph style using HTML like tags, i.e., bold, italic and underline

• Change Paragraph text color with a ParagraphStyle object

• Change Paragraph text color with HTML like tags

After this you will be able to:

• Know the advantages of a Paragraph vs literal string in a Table cell

• Load data from a txt file to a Table

After this you will be able to:

• Change font name of a Paragraph using ParagraphStyle object

• Load data from a csv file to a Table

• Know the difference between csv and xlsx files

• Alternate background color of Table rows

Palms Hotel managers liked a lot our previous job! So they asked us to make a shadow effect to a specific text!

Palms Hotel managers asked us to add a text in Arabic!!! You will learn how to register a True Type Font aka ttf!

Palms Hotel managers asked us to change the font used in two paragraphs. The new font have several ttf files, for normal, bold, italic and bold italic!! You will learn how to register a font family and take advantage of it in a Paragraph.

Here you will learn how to draw:

• a rectangle;

• a triangle;

• a star.

For that you will use the ReportLab classes: Drawing, Polygon, Group and Rect.

Here I decided to answer some frequent asked questions, you will see how to:

• Create a New Page;

• Get the Page Number;

• Set the Page in Landscape;

• Add Outlines to your document;

• Protect it with Password;

• Encrypt your PDF.

In this lecture you will learn how to:

• Configure Visual Studio Code for Debugging;

• Basics of how Debug works;

• Find specific ReportLab Code;

• Use PowerShell to search for files that contains a specific string;

• And the most important one! How to think.

In this lecture you will learn how to:

• Refactor the existing code to extract a simple and useful interface;

• Install Django;

• See Django version;

• Create a Django Project;

• Create a Django Application (very simple "Hello World");

• Create an HTML form and submit data to a Django View;

• Adapt ReportLab code to run in Django;

• Make Django View return a PDF document (that will be downloaded).