from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import * from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer, PageBreak from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet, ParagraphStyle from calibrestekje import Book, Publisher, init_session pagewidth, pageheight = landscape(A6) doc = SimpleDocTemplate("text.pdf", pagesize=landscape(A6), rightMargin=18, leftMargin=18, topMargin=0, bottomMargin=18) content = [] styles = getSampleStyleSheet() session = init_session("sqlite:///metadata.db") for book in session.query(Book).all(): print (book.title) print (book.authors) # c.drawString(10,pageheight-10, book.title) # c.showPage() # create a paragraph and append content to it - e.g. book.title, book.authors etc p = Paragraph('{}'.format(book.title), styles["Italic"]) content.append(p) # content.append(PageBreak()) content.append(Spacer(1, 12)) #import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() format_string = '{}' all_authors = [author.name for author in book.authors] glued_together = format_string.format(", ".join(all_authors)) # ALTERNATIVE WAY... (without list comprehensions) first = True author_text = "" for author in book.authors: if not first: text += ", " author_text += "{}".format(author.name) first = False #if all_authors==['John Markoff']: # import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() p = Paragraph(glued_together, styles["Normal"]) content.append(p) content.append(PageBreak()) content.append(Spacer(1, 12)) doc.build(content)