[reportlab-users] [ANN] rst2pdf version 0.8 released

[Roberto Alsina]

This is a major features release, and a major improvement over 0.7.
Perhaps the most important new feature is support for embedding 
SVG/PS/EPS and several other vector image formats *as vectors* 
in the PDF output.

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 embedding almost any kind of raster or vector images

* Supports hyphenation (using wordaxe)

* Full user's manual (PDF version)

Here's the changelog for this release:

New in 0.8
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* Support for vector graphics: SVG, EPS, PS, CDR and others 
  (requires uniconvertor)

* Support for stdin and stdout, so you can use rst2pdf 
  in pipes.

* Works with reportlab 2.2

* Simpler stylesheets (guess bulletFontName, leading, 
  bulletFontSize from other parameters)

* Some support for sphinx

* Fixed the docutils Writer interface

* Fix crash when an image is missing

* Support for config file

* Font sizes can be expressed in units or % of parent 
  style's size

* Larger font size in the default stylesheet


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