[reportlab-users] [ANN] rst2pdf version 0.6 released

[Roberto Alsina]

I just released version 0.6 of this Rst-to-PDF-via-reportlab tool.

This is a major features release, and a major improvement over 0.5.

You can get it via PyPI (package rst2pdf) or from Google Code: 
http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com

Here are some of the features it provides:

* User-defined page layout. Multiple frames per page, multiple 
  layouts per document. 
* Cascading stylesheet mechanism, define only what you want changed 
* Supports TTF font embedding using a custom stylesheet 
* Any number of paragraph styles using the class directive 
* Any number of character styles using text roles 
* Custom page sizes and margins using a custom stylesheet. 
* Syntax highlighter for many languages, using Pygments 
* Supports hyphenation (using wordaxe) 
* Full user's manual

Here's the changelog for the last two versions:

New in 0.6
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* Stylesheet-defined page layout (For example, multicolumn) and layout 
switching
* Cascading Stylesheets (change exactly what you need changed)
* PDF table of contents
* Current section names and numbers in headers/footers
* Support for compressed PDF files
* Link color is configurable
* Fixed bugs in color handling
* Multilingual hyphenation
* Auto-guessing image size, support for sizes in %
* Gutter margins
* Big refactoring
* More tolerant of minor problems
* Limited _raw_ directive (you can insert pagebreaks and vertical space)
* Implemented a "traditional" docutils writer
* Offer a reasonable API for use as a library
* Fixed copyright/licensing
* code-block now supports including files (whole or in part) so you can
  highlight external code.

New in 0.5
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* Support for :widths: in tables
* Support for captions in tables
* Support for multi-row headers in tables
* Improved definition lists
* Fixed bug in image directive 
* Whitespace conforming to PEP8
* Fixed bug in text size on code-block
* Package is more setuptools compliant
* Fix for option groups in option lists
* Citations support
* Title reference role fix

Hope you enjoy it and/or find it useful.

Best regards,

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