[reportlab-users] First report, complete with graph and database

[Patrick Maupin]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Bill Harris
<bill_harris at facilitatedsystems.com> wrote:

> I am trying to create my first real reportlab report.  I've followed

> some of the examples at

> http://www.protocolostomy.com/2008/10/22/generating-reports-with-charts-using-python-reportlab/,

> and they were helpful.

>

> What I want to do is create a one-page landscape report with, roughly,

> two columns of differing width.  I'll use a company logo, I'll have both

> a line graph and a table of data, and I'll have some text (both flowing

> paragraph text and something like lists ( the recipients name and

> address, etc.).  The database is likely SQLite.


If your needs are simple and you haven't done any Python programming,
you might consider programatically generating reStructuredText, and
using rst2pdf (which uses reportlab under the hood).

Pat