[reportlab-users] reStructuredText to pythonpoint

[Roberto Alsina]

On Friday 26 September 2008 14:59:09 Dave Kuhlman wrote:

> Andy Robinson <andy <at> reportlab.com> writes:

> > If your long term goal is making documents from ReST, this is

> > something I hope we will be able to help with.  But I think Roberto's

> > rst2pdf, and better support from us in Platypus for things like tables

> > of contents, will provide a great route for anyone to create PDF

> > manuals - or slide shows.    There seems to be very little point in

> > going from parsed ReST  through XSLT to Pythonpoint markup and then a

> > parser back into Python, when we could go straight to PDF in one

> > process.

> >

> > - Andy

>

> I agree with your thinking that rst2pdf is a more direct route from reST to

> PDF. And, I think rst2pdf is a very good idea.  I intend to look at it and

> use it. Hopefully, it can be used to create slides in PDF.  I've been using

> OpenOffice ooimpress and then exporting to PDF, which is very awkward.


If you need rst2pdf to do something special, other than "use landscape pages 
and large fonts" ;-) let me know.

For example, page transitions, background drawings, that kind of thing.

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