Multiple pages using Reportlab - Django

Question

I'm working in a site using Django and I print a .pdf file using Repotlab.

Now, I want the file to have multiple pages, how can I do it?

My code:

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from django.http import HttpResponse

def Print_PDF(request):
    response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="resume.pdf"'

    p = canvas.Canvas(response)

    p.drawString(100, 100, "Some text in first page.")
    p.drawString(200, 100, "Some text in second page.")
    p.drawString(300, 100, "Some text in third page")

    p.showPage()
    p.save()
    return response

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

showPage(), despite its confusing name, will actually end the current page, so anything you draw on the canvas after calling it will go on the next page.

In your example, you can just use p.showPage() after each p.drawString example and they will all appear on their own page.

def Print_PDF(request):
    response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="resume.pdf"'

    p = canvas.Canvas(response)

    p.drawString(100, 100, "Some text in first page.")
    p.showPage()

    p.drawString(200, 100, "Some text in second page.")
    p.showPage()

    p.drawString(300, 100, "Some text in third page")
    p.showPage()

    p.save()
    return response