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#copyright ReportLab Inc. 2000-2010 #see LICENSE.txt for license details This is the ReportLab PDF Toolkit. It allows rapid creation of rich PDF documents, and also creation of charts in a variety of bitmap and vector formats. This library is also the foundation for our commercial product Report Markup Language (RML), available in the ReportLab PLUS package. RML offers many more features, a template-based style of document development familiar to all web developers, and higher development productivity. Please consider trying out RML for your project, as the license sales support our open source development. Contents of this file: 1. Licensing 2. Installation 2.1 Source distribution or subversion 2.2 Manual installation without C compiler 2.3 easy_install 2.4 Windows .exe installer 2.5 Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems 3. Prerequisites / dependencies 4. Documentation 5. Acknowledgments 1.Licensing =========== BSD license. See LICENSE.txt for details 2.Installation ============== You need to have installed Python (versions 2.3 through 2.7), and ideally PIL with Freetype support; more notes on prerequisites follow below. We aim to be compatible with several of the popular installation techniques - please pick your preferred one below... 2.1. Subversion or source distributions: --------------------------------------- Use python setup.py install After this has completed you should be able to run python setup.py tests and see error-free output. (Note 1: If you see a line of dots, and a small number of errors relating to 'renderPM', it's likely that your C compiler environment is incorrect and that the renderPM C extension could not be installed. However, it's only needed if you want to generate bitmap graphics - more on this below) (Note 2: there is also an option 'python setup.py tests-preinstall', which will run the tests where you unpack the files; this is expected to fail on one or two tests involving renderPM as that extension has not been compiled yet.) This assumes you have a C compiler and the necessary packages to build Python extensions. If you are installing system-wide you will need root permissions e.g.: sudo python setup.py install On Ubuntu, you will need build-essential, libfreetype6-dev, python-dev and python-imaging. Most other Linux and xBSD distributions have packages with similar names. On Windows you need the correct version of Visual Studio for the Python you are using. 2.2 Manual installation without C compiler (e.g. Windows): --------------------------------------------------------- - either place the src/ folder on your path, or move the 'reportlab' package inside it to somewhere on your path such as site-packages - Optional: on Win32, get the DLLs for your Python version from here and copy them into site-packages. The library can make PDFs without these but will go slower and lack bitmap image generation capabilities. https://www.reportlab.org/ftp/win32-dlls/ 2.3 easy-install ---------------- easy_install is a popular Python deployment tool. As of this version, you should be able to install with "easy_install reportlab". We do NOT use a setuptools-based script, but have modified our distribution to be compatible with easy_install. 2.4 Windows .exe installer -------------------------- A binary .exe installer for Windows (built with distutils) is available on our website. 2.5 Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems ----------------------------------------- The latest releases are generally available in the ubuntu repositories within 2-3 weeks. At the time of writing (20th Jan 2010) the basic reportlab installer does not include the C extensions, so we recommend installing these THREE packages for a full-speed, full-features installation: sudo apt-get install python-reportlab python-reportlab-accel python-renderpm There is also a package 'python-reportlab-doc' including the built PDF manuals, which are also available on our website. Alternatively, if you would rather compile from source you will need compilers and other dependencies as follows, and can then follow the instructions in 2.1 above... sudo apt-get install build-essential libfreetype6-dev python-dev python-imaging 3. Prerequisites / dependencies =============================== This works with Python 2.3 - 2.6. 2.7 is not tested yet but you are welcome to try. There are no absolute prerequisites beyond the Python standard library; but the Python Imaging Library (PIL) is needed to include images other than JPG inside PDF files. The C extension are optional but anyone able to do so should use _rl_accel as it helps achieve acceptable speeds. The _renderPM extension allows graphics (such as charts) to be saved as bitmap images for the web, as well as inside PDFs. 4. Documentation ================ Naturally, we generate our own manuals using the library. In a 'built' distribution, they may already be present in the docs/ directory. If not, execute "python genAll.py" in that directory, and it will create the manuals. 5. Acknowledgements and Thanks ============================== lib/normalDate.py originally by Jeff Bauer Many, many contributors have helped out between 2000 and 2010. we keep a list in the first chapter of the User Guide; if you have contributed and are not listed there, please let us know.
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