pdfrw documentation sucks The sole reason the pdfrw example discussed in the first answer to this question is a bit klunky is because the pdfrw documentation sucks badly. Due to the sucky doc, that example’s author @Larry-Meyn used the vectorpdf extension for rst2pdf as as starting point, and that extension is not really documented either, … Read more
Here’s a solution using pdfrw: #!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 “””matplotlib_example.py An simple example of how to insert matplotlib generated figures into a ReportLab platypus document. “”” import matplotlib matplotlib.use(‘PDF’) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import cStringIO from pdfrw import PdfReader from pdfrw.buildxobj import pagexobj from pdfrw.toreportlab import makerl from reportlab.platypus import Flowable from reportlab.lib.enums import … Read more
First plot table with matplotlib then generate pdf import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random((10,3)), columns = (“col 1”, “col 2”, “col 3″)) #https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32137396/how-do-i-plot-only-a-table-in-matplotlib fig, ax =plt.subplots(figsize=(12,4)) ax.axis(‘tight’) ax.axis(‘off’) the_table = ax.table(cellText=df.values,colLabels=df.columns,loc=”center”) #https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4042192/reduce-left-and-right-margins-in-matplotlib-plot pp = PdfPages(“foo.pdf”) pp.savefig(fig, bbox_inches=”tight”) pp.close() reference: How do I … Read more