[reportlab-users] [ANN] rst2pdf version 0.7 released

[Roberto Alsina]

I just released version 0.7 of this Rst-to-PDF-via-reportlab tool.

**IMPORTANT** rst2pdf needs a new name. There are three tools with the same
name, so suggestions to ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar are appreciated.

This is a major features release, and a major improvement over 0.6.

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 and Type1 font embedding using a custom stylesheet 
* "Floating" sidebars (or almost any element) 
* Any number of paragraph styles using the class directive 
* Any number of character styles using text roles
* Styled table headers and cells 
* Custom page sizes and margins. 
* Syntax highlighter for many languages, using Pygments 
* Supports hyphenation (using wordaxe) 
* Full user's manual

You can see a sample of some features here: http://tinyurl.com/5e4h3j

Here's the changelog for the last two versions:

New in 0.7
----------

* Automatic Type1 and True Type font embedding. Just use the font or family
  name, and (with a little luck), it will be embedded for you.
* width attribute in styles, to create narrow paragraphs/tables
* Styles for table headers and table cells.
* "Zebra tables".
* Improvements in the handling of overflowing literal blocks (code, for
  instance)
* Different modes to handle too-large literal blocks: 
  overflow/ truncate/ shrink.
* Real sidebars and "floating" elements.
* Fixed link style (no ugly black underlining!)

New in 0.6
----------

* 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.

Hope you enjoy it and/or find it useful.

Best regards,

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