[reportlab-users] [ANN] rst2pdf version 0.8.1 released

[Roberto Alsina]

I just released version 0.8.1 of this Rst-to-PDF-via-reportlab tool.

This is rst2pdf's first **not** major release.

However, it fixes many bugs and adds a few features, so it's worth the 
upgrade.

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 0.8.1
------------

* Support for more complex headers and footers
  (including image directives and tables)
* Optional inline links
* Wordaxe 0.2.6 support
* Several bugs fixed (issues 48,68,41,60,58,64,67)
* Support for system-wide config file
* Better author metadata

New in 0.8
----------

* 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 2.1 and 2.2
* Simpler stylesheets (guess bulletFontName, leading, bulletFontSize from 
other parameters)
* Some support for sphinx
* Fixed the docutils Writer interface
* Continue processing when an image is missing
* Support for user config file
* Font sizes can be expressed in units or % of parent style's size
* Larger font size in the default stylesheet


Hope you enjoy it and/or find it useful.

Best regards,

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