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I can't find any option, that would allow to set colspan for td element in rml . Is that somehow possible? The normal ReportLab way to do this would be to instead use Platypus and the Table flowable. When you set the style of the Table , you can specify a 'SPAN' command that will bundle any rectangular area of cells into one. You'll find more information on this in the ReportLab User Guide , chapter 7, page 81. If you must use RML, I'm inclined to think that colspan is simply not available. It's at least not in the ReportLab RML reference document . Instead I think you are supposed to use

I'm writing pdfs with reportlab inside a django view, they are very simple, the header, the contents and the footer. I'm using SimpleDocTemplate wich fits very well, to draw tables in the contents, the footer and the header are drwan using: build([data], onFirstPage=drawPageFrame, onLaterPages=drawPageFrame). My question is, How can I draw a image like using Canvas.drawImage(...)? I need a "floating" image... positioned over the text where I want, and with SimpleDocTemplate I don't have a Canvas object to do this. Searching I have found this: The platypus layout stuff uses flowables. Packers

My main goal is to have all the Image flowables on a page to act as though they are clickable links. In order to do this, I would create a canvas.linkRect() and place it over the rendered Image. Here's an example of how I use canvas.linkRect(): canvas.linkURL( url='url_goes_here', rect=(x1, y1, x2, y2), #(x1, y1) is the bottom left coordinate of the rectangle, (x2, y2) is the top right thickness=0, relative=1 ) After looking in the BaseDocTemplate class, I found a method called afterFlowable(self, flowable). I overrode that method and called dir() on the flowable passed in, resulting in this:

I would like to add a figure generated with matplotlib to a reportlab canvas using the method drawImage and without having to save the figure to the hard drive first. My question is related to: Is there a matplotlib flowable for ReportLab? , which was nicely solved. However, I do not wish to use DocTemplates, Stories, Flowables, etc. As said, I would like put it at a certain position in the canvas using drawImage. I have tried to convert the matplotlib figure to a PIL image using the following methods: 1) http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/wiki/index.php/How_to_convert_a_matplotlib_figure_to_a

TL;DR: Is there some way of telling ReportLab to use a specific font, and fallback to another if glyphs for some characters are missing? Alternatively, Do you know of a condensed TrueType font which contains the glyphs for all European languages, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic? I've been creating reports with ReportLab, and have encountered problems with rendering strings containing Chinese characters. The font I've been using is DejaVu Sans Condensed, which does not contain the glyphs for Chinese (however, it does contain Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and all sorts of Umlauts for

How can I create a bulleted list in ReportLab? The documentation is frustratingly vague. I am trying: text = ur ''' <para bulletText="•"> item 1 </para> <para bulletText="•"> item 2 </para> ''' Story.append(Paragraph(text,TEXT_STYLE)) But I keep getting errors like list index out of range . It seems that I can't put more than one <para></para> in a single call to Paragraph() ? I also tried setting TEXT_STYLE.bulletText="•" but that doesn't work either... The bulletText argument is actually a constructor to the Paragraph object, not the <para> tag :-) Try this: story.append(Paragraph(text, TEXT

What is a best way to have a footer and header in reportlab, that not just a single line, that can be drawed with canvas.drawString in onPage function. Didn`t find a way to put something like Paragraph into header/footer in onPage function. What is the best way to handle this? Is there a way to put a paragraph into footer ? You can use arbitrary drawing commands in the onPage function, so you can just draw a paragraph (see section 5.3 in the reportlab user guide ) from your function. Here is a complete example: from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter from reportlab.lib.styles import

What is an efficient way to generate PDF for data frames in Pandas? Well one way is to use markdown. You can use df.to_html() . This converts the dataframe into a html table. From there you can put the generated html into a markdown file (.md) (see http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics ). From there, there are utilities to convert markdown into a pdf ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-pdf ). One all-in-one tool for this method is to use Atom text editor ( https://atom.io/ ). There you can use an extension, search "markdown to pdf", which will make the conversion for you.