http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/popular/2016-07-23T22:17:29-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2016-07-23T22:17:29-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580692-create-pdf-control-break-reports-with-itertoolsgro/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580692 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/control/">control</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/grouping/">grouping</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/iterators/">iterators</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sql/">sql</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to create the classic control break style of report (a staple of data processing) using Python along with the groupby function from the itertools module, and xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation.</p>

2015-01-28T22:20:53-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579014-convert-html-text-to-pdf-with-beautiful-soup-and-x/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579014 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/format/">format</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to convert the text in an HTML document to PDF. It uses the Beautiful Soup and xtopdf Python libraries. Beautiful Soup is a library for HTML parsing and content extraction. xtopdf is a library for PDF creation from other formats, including text and many others.</p>

2014-12-25T17:48:53-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578991-create-tabular-pdf-reports-with-xtopdf-and-tablib-/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578991 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportgeneration/">reportgeneration</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reporting/">reporting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tablib/">tablib</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to create tabular PDF reports, i.e. PDF reports containing tabular data - rows and columns, using Python, xtopdf (a PDF creation library) and tablib (a Python library for manipulating tabular data). </p>