The ReportLab Open Source PDF library is a proven industry-strength python-based PDF generating solution, suitable for web publishers, developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents. It is released by ReportLab Inc., under BSD license. It includes binary extensions (previously available separately) _rl_accel and renderPM It has the following features: - create professional portable documents - real document layout engine (Platypus) - flowable objects (paragraphs, headlines, tables, images, graphics, etc.) - arbitrary Type-1 fonts - bitmap images, vector graphics - library of reusable primitive shapes - extensible widget library - layered architecture - includes simple demos and more complex tools - allows for any data sources - strong community support - platform-independent - includes PythonPoint - PDF Presentation Tool