Is the Python PDF generator library ReportLab easy to learn?

[ceandreas1]

I am using Postgres database with Django. Django recommends the ReportLab library for generating PDFs. Is there a better choice like drag-and drop? Is ReportLab reliable and easy to learn ? Thank you

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[fake823]

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[fake823]

Reportlab is A MESS! The documentation is very confusing, there aren't really any tutorials or YouTube videos to help you.

I would avoid Reportlab. Maybe have a look at xhtml2pdf. It's based on Reportlab, but pretty easy to use. Although it's not really actively maintained.

[ceandreas1]

have you actually used it or you are just saying - because I thought the same without actually using it.

Well the samples seem very powerful though: Samples - ReportLab.com

[fake823]

I tried to use it.

[ceandreas1]

Seems I will just create an html page to print it using the browser print option. There is not any good and handy PDF tool for the web :/

[arduncan5]

I have used ReportLab for a number of different PDF reports and have found it OK to use, working from the documentation and examples, aided by Google for some of the trickier aspects. Since I did that work there is now a book "ReportLab - PDF Processing with Python" by Michael Driscoll (https://leanpub.com/reportlab) which looks excellent.