""" PrettyTableToPDF.py A demo program to show how to convert the output generated by the PrettyTable library, to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation from other formats. Author: Vasudev Ram - http://www.dancingbison.com xtopdf is at: http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf Copyright 2015 Vasudev Ram """ from prettytable import PrettyTable from PDFWriter import PDFWriter pt = PrettyTable(["City name", "Area", "Population", "Annual Rainfall"]) pt.align["City name"] = "l" # Left align city names pt.padding_width = 1 # One space between column edges and contents (default) pt.add_row(["Adelaide",1295, 1158259, 600.5]) pt.add_row(["Brisbane",5905, 1857594, 1146.4]) pt.add_row(["Darwin", 112, 120900, 1714.7]) pt.add_row(["Hobart", 1357, 205556, 619.5]) pt.add_row(["Sydney", 2058, 4336374, 1214.8]) pt.add_row(["Melbourne", 1566, 3806092, 646.9]) pt.add_row(["Perth", 5386, 1554769, 869.4]) lines = pt.get_string() pw = PDFWriter('Australia-Rainfall.pdf') pw.setFont('Courier', 12) pw.setHeader('Demo of PrettyTable to PDF') pw.setFooter('Demo of PrettyTable to PDF') for line in lines.split('\n'): pw.writeLine(line) pw.close()