Creating a PDF using flowables.

reportlab-flowables.py

from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.lib.units import inch
from reportlab.lib import colors
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph, Frame, TableStyle, Table, Spacer, Image
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
import datetime

c = Canvas('doc.pdf', pagesize=letter)
f = Frame(inch, inch, 6.5*inch, 9*inch, showBoundary=0)

styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
styleN = styles['Normal']
styleH = styles['Heading1']
story = []

#add some flowables
story.append(Paragraph("<b>VIESORE TPS Report</b>",styleH))
story.append(Spacer(1, -0.3 * inch))
story.append(Paragraph("_" * 45, styleH))

# More header info in table
t = datetime.datetime.now()
d = [["Project name: Evil Empire", "Report created date: " + str(t)],
     ["No. of Kops: 3", "Report created time: " + str(t)]]
h_table = Table(d, 2 * [3.25 * inch], 2 * [0.2 * inch])
h_table.setStyle((TableStyle([("ALIGN", (1, 0), (1, -1), "RIGHT")])))

# Our table data
data = [["ATTRIBUTE", "VALUE", "ATTRIBUTE", "VALUE"]]
for i in range(1, 11):
    data.append([str(i), str(i), str(i), str(i)])
t = Table(data, colWidths=110)
t.setStyle(TableStyle([("BOX", (0, 0), (-1, -1), 0.25, colors.black),
                       ("INNERGRID", (0, 0), (-1, -1), 0.25, colors.black),
                       ("ALIGN", (1, 1), (-1, -1), "LEFT"),
                       ("BACKGROUND", (0, 0), (3, 0), colors.darkgrey)]))
data_len = len(data)
for each in range(1, data_len):
    if each % 2 == 0:
        bg_color = colors.lightgrey
    else:
        bg_color = colors.white

    t.setStyle(TableStyle([('BACKGROUND', (0, each), (-1, each), bg_color)]))

story.append(h_table)
story.append(Spacer(1, 0.2 * inch))
story.append(t)
story.append(Spacer(1, 0.4 * inch))

render = "image.jpg"
im = Image(render)
story.append(im)

f.addFromList(story,c)
c.save()