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Python 3 ReportLab Library Script to Export Colorful Invoice Billing Data Table in PDF & Save it
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-reportlab-library-script-to-export-colorful-invoice-billing-data-table-in-pdf-save-it/
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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generate a invoice billing data inside
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your PDF document with your company name
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and a table of products of your which of
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your company whatever products your
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company is selling so some simply like a
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invoice data document inside PDF
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document so inside this Python script so
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I've written this Python script here uh
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which will actually generate this
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colorful PDF document which will contain
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the
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data inside the tablo structure uh let
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me just execute this python
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script and as soon as I execute this go
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to the terminal and just type here
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python app py so you will see on the
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left hand side it will create a file
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which is uh
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recept you will see the file has been
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created and if I try to open this file
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you will see it will look something like
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this this will be the
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output uh first of all your company name
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whatever is your company name then we
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have this tabular structure a
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table invoice table holding data of
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whatever products that you have
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purchased we also have the date here
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alongside with the product at which date
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you have purchased it and what is the
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price of it it is a subscription how
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much time that you have purchased it
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this is a price here so it also
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calculates the total number of price in
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the invoice document right here you will
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see
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that so we have generated this PDF
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document using report lab library inside
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Python which is an open-source library
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for generating PDF documents so you can
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everything you can customize it inside
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this PDF document i will show you the
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script so now to get started here first
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of all you need to uh require this
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package you need to require this or
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install this package which is report lab
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so the command is very simple pip
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install report lab this is the command i
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have already installed it so after
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installing it
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uh I have given all this source code is
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in the uh description of this video so
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the source code is
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given so now I will show you all this
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source code step by step
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so first of all you need to require all
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the packages that you will need for this
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application so for requiring it you
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simply write here from report lab and
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then like this we need to import this
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simple doc template and we also need to
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require the table as well because we'll
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be embedding tables as well and we also
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need to require paragraph so these are
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all the elements that we will be
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inserting inside the PDF document and
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also table
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style and then we also need to say from
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report
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lab dot lib we need to
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import the colors the different kinds of
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colors so this will be a colorful table
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so for we need to import colors and
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similarly from report
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lab.lib dotpage sizes we need to import
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the A4 size so there are different sizes
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available inside the PDF document so we
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need to import the correct size which is
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A4 size after that we again need to say
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from report lab dot lib dotstyles we
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need to import get sample
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stylesheet so now all the packages have
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been in imported now we just need to
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make sure we provide the correct data
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for our
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invoice
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so this data can can be anything so I'm
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just copy pasting the data here
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so once you get the script you can
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modify this data so this is actually
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having this uh three columns right here
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date name subscription price and then we
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have a series of products right
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here like this subtotal discount total
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so this is very similar uh invoice
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document how many products have you
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purchased what is the price of it what
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is the discount uh what is the total
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price everything so after providing this
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we will now be generating the PDF
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document for generating the PDF document
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we simply initialize this simple
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doc template we initialize this and
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inside this it actually takes the first
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argument as
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the name of the file so we will simply
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provide this as result PDF the name of
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the PDF file and then the second
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argument will be the page size so
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whatever is the page size that you want
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to configure so in my case I will be
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configuring A4 size so
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simply so now after generating the PDF
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we just need
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to also style it for styling it we will
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use this get sample stylesheet method
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that we imported earlier on we also need
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to set the title as well of the for
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setting the title we use
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this heading
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one and then we can set the alignment of
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the heading which will be in the center
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position so we setting this alignment
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value to one some more properties are
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also there which is font size font name
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you can even change these properties as
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well by changing this and then we can
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add this simple
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paragraph so you will see we are setting
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this as free media tools which is your
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company name so this will be your title
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and then we add
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the table by using this table style
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and here you specify your tabular
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structure so this will contain the CSS
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styles as well so here we are providing
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different CSS properties here such as
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the what is what will be the background
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color what will be the text color what
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will be the alignment of the table
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background everything so each and every
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CSS property that we are providing right
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here in this way after that we simply
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create this table by using the table
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constructor and we simply pass two
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arguments here first of all the data
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that we declared earlier on and then the
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style the styles and then we
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actually build the entire PDF document
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by using the build method and here we
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takes two arguments first of all the
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title and then the
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table that's all so this completes the
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application it's very simple so let me
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now delete this and rerun the script
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once again run the script here you will
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see on the left hand side result pdf has
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been successfully generated if I open
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this again you will see it will look
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something like this first of all your
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company name right
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here then we have three columns and we
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have these products we have subtotal
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discount total we also have the price as
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well
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so depending upon your currency you can
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change this currency as well like
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this so in this way you can generate a
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invoice data document in PDF format
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using Python in report lab library so if
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you need the full script the link is
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given in the description of the video so
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right in the CSS properties you can
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manipulate
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everything if let's suppose if you want
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to change this background color to
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something else let's suppose I want to
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change it to yellow so once again if I
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change this change this uh make this
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modification and if I refresh now you
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will see the color will be changed the
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background color of the table has been
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successfully changed so with this single
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change you can see you can actually
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change the entire result of your
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application so the link is given in the
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description you can get the full script
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and thank you very much for watching
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this video and also check out my website
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freemediattools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools
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