Python 3 ReportLab Library to Add Pagination at Footer inside PDF Document in Command Line

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be adding the pagination inside the footer in pdf document using python & the reportlab library. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the library using the pip command as shown below

pip install reportlab

After this you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
def createMultiPage():
    """
    Create a multi-page document
    """
    c = canvas.Canvas("canvas_page_num.pdf")
 
    for i in range(5):
        page_num = c.getPageNumber()
        text = "This is page %s" % page_num
        c.drawString(100, 50, text)
        c.showPage()
    c.save()
 
 
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    createMultiPage()

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

#----------------------------------------------------------------------

def createMultiPage():

"""

Create a multi-page document

"""

c = canvas.Canvas("canvas_page_num.pdf")

for i in range(5):

page_num = c.getPageNumber()

text = "This is page %s" % page_num

c.drawString(100, 50, text)

c.showPage()

c.save()

#----------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":

createMultiPage()

As you can see we are importing the reportlab library and then we are using the for loop to insert the page numbers inside the footer section. And for this we are using the drawString() method and inside it we are providing the x and y coordinates and then we are saving the pdf document with the custom filename.