The DDG Palm Springs March 16 2024

TECH TALK
OPEN SOURCE PDF
PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT
PDF is an abbreviation that
stands for Portable Document
Format. It’s a versatile file
format created by Adobe that
gives people an easy, reliable
way to present and exchange
documents - regardless of the
software, hardware, or operating
systems being used by anyone
who views the document.
AI has changed code
development in several
significant ways:
Impact of AI Today,
AI can generate code based
on high-level requirements
or examples, saving time for
developers.
AI tools can suggest and
automatically implement
refactoring to improve code
quality and readability.
AI-powered tools can detect
bugs in code and even suggest
fixes, speeding up the debugging
process.
AI-based code editors can
provide intelligent code
completion suggestions
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ReportLab is an open-source Python
toolkit for creating PDF documents.
It offers a low-level API for generating
PDFs directly from Python, as well as
a higher-level template language called
RML. The library can handle various
elements, from text and geometric
figures to graphics and illustrations.
To get started with ReportLab,
you can install it using pip:
1. pip install reportlab
After installation, you can create
a basic PDF document with
ReportLab like this:
1. from reportlab.pdfgen
import canvas
2. c = canvas.Canvas(“helloworld.pdf
”)
3. c.drawString(50, 50,
“Hello world!”)
4. c.save()
In this example, we import the
`canvas` module from `reportlab.
pdfgen`, create an instance
of the `Canvas` class with the
desired file name, draw a string
(“Hello world!”) at coordinates
(50, 50) on the canvas, and then
save the document. When you
open the resulting PDF file,
you’ll see the text “Hello world!”
in the bottom left corner of the
page.
The drawImage() method takes
as arguments the path of an
image (it supports multiple
formats such as PNG, JPEG and
GIF) and the (x, y) position at
which you want to insert it.
But here is the issue I did
not write this code I told the
computer to write it, whis it did
then I asked it to modify older
code I gave up on years ago code
to include my trick and it did it.
I no longer publish my code but
if I did I would use it.