Welcome folks today in this tutorial we will be creating a simple pdf document using reportlab library in python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the following library using the pip command as shown below
pip install reportlab
After installing this library make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
app.py
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from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf") c.drawString(50,50,"This is a simple text written by reportlab library") c.save() |
Now if you execute the above script by typing the below command as shown below
python app.py
As you can see it has created the output.pdf file containing the text that we mentioned inside the python script
