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Generate pdf with reportlab

In django project trying to create a pdf using python-reportlab.

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="somefilename.pdf"'

p = canvas.Canvas(response)
p.drawString(10, 800, "Name")
p.drawString(10, 900, "Address")
p.drawString(10, 1000, "School")
p.showPage()
p.save()

On output pdf It only shows the Name, what happened to other two strings?

Solution

  • The coordinates for "Address" and "School" are simply outside of the page. The origin of the reportlab coordinate system is bottom-left, with the x coordinate going to the right and the y coordinate going up. Try the following instead:

    p.drawString(10, 800, "Name")
p.drawString(10, 790, "Address")
p.drawString(10, 780, "School")