Adding Paragraph with style options to our PDF document by using Python ReportLab

Adding Paragraph text to PDF by Python ReportLab with style properties, layout and formats

We can import Paragraph and ParagraphStyle

from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph

We can declare a set of style properties

my_Style=ParagraphStyle('My Para style',
fontName='Times-Roman',
backColor='#F1F1F1',
fontSize=16,
borderColor='#FFFF00',
borderWidth=2,
borderPadding=(20,20,20),
leading=20,
alignment=0
)

Connect this style properties to our paragraph like this.

p1=Paragraph(''' my text here ''', my_Style)

Layout

We have delcared a Canvas like this .

my_path='G:\\My drive\\testing\\pypdf2\\my_pdf.pdf' 
c = canvas.Canvas(my_path, pagesize=A4)

Place our Paragraph on the canvas like this.

p1.wrapOn(c,300,50)
p1.drawOn(c,width-450,height-350)

c.save()

Full code is here

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import  A4

my_Style=ParagraphStyle('My Para style',
fontName='Times-Roman',
backColor='#F1F1F1',
fontSize=16,
borderColor='#FFFF00',
borderWidth=2,
borderPadding=(20,20,20),
leading=20,
alignment=0
)

width,height=A4
my_path='G:\\My drive\\testing\\pypdf2\\my_pdf.pdf' 
c = canvas.Canvas(my_path, pagesize=A4)

p1=Paragraph('''<b>About this online classes </b><BR/>\
     Welcome to our online classes.<BR/> \
	 You can learn Python, PHP, database like MySQL \
SQLite and many more \
<font face="times" color="blue">We are creating \
PDF by using ReportLab</font> \
<i>This is part of our Final report.</i>''',my_Style)

p1.wrapOn(c,300,50)
p1.drawOn(c,width-450,height-350)
c.save()

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	26-11-2023
how can you continue your paragraph on next page if it doesnt end on that page of A4 size