Adding shapes like circles rectangles to PDF file by using Python ReportLab

PDF pages in Python to add shapes like circles with random colour fills using ReportLab drawing.

Circles can be drawn by specifying centre X , Y coordinates and by giving radios. We can also specify the colour to be used to fill the circle. Here two circles are drawn with two different background-colors.

With two alternate coloured circles

from reportlab.graphics.shapes import *
my_path='G:\\My drive\\testing\\pypdf2\\my_pdf.pdf' 
d=Drawing(600,600)
import random
for rd in range(0,300,10):
    if(rd%20==0):
        d.add(Circle(300,300,300-rd,fillColor=[1,0,0]))
    else:
        d.add(Circle(300,300,300-rd,fillColor=[0,1,0]))
from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF
renderPDF.drawToFile(d,my_path,'')

Raondom Multi coloured concentric circles

We can generate float between 0 and less than 1 ( exclusive ) by using random.random().

random.uniform() returns between start and stop ( inclusive )
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Random coloured concentric circles in PDF

Random coloured concentric circles in PDF

from reportlab.graphics.shapes import *
my_path='G:\\My drive\\testing\\pypdf2\\my_pdf.pdf' 
d=Drawing(1200,1200)
import random
for rd in range(0,600,20):
    r=random.random()
    g=random.random()
    b=random.random()
    d.add(Circle(600,600,600-rd,fillColor=[r,g,b]))

from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF
renderPDF.drawToFile(d,my_path,'')

Drawing random colour filled rectangles

Here we have used random.uniform() to generate random floats between 0 and 1 (inclusive of 0 and 1). Check this link for difference between random.uniform() and random.random()

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Here width and height is set to to variables. So it can easily increased or decresed at single point.

w,h=620,620

Full code is here.

from reportlab.graphics.shapes import *
my_path='G:\\My drive\\testing\\pypdf2\\my_pdf.pdf' 
w,h=620,620
d = Drawing(w,h)
import random
for rd in range(0,int(w/2),20):
    r=random.uniform(0,1)
    g=random.uniform(0,1)
    b=random.uniform(0,1)   
    d.add(Rect(rd, rd, w-(rd*2), h-(rd*2), fillColor=[r,g,b]))
        
from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF
renderPDF.drawToFile(d, my_path, '')

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Using shapes like Circles & rectangles to PDF file

With two alternate coloured circles

Raondom Multi coloured concentric circles

Drawing random colour filled rectangles

Subhendu Mohapatra