[reportlab-users] [ANN] rst2pdf version 0.9 released

Roberto Alsina ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar
Fri Sep 26 16:38:24 EDT 2008


I have the pleasure of announcing version 0.9 of this
Rst-to-PDF-via-reportlab tool.

This release fixes two major bugs, and adds one major feature
(math support).

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

Here are some of the features it provides:

* LaTeX style math support (requires matplotlib)
* 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 0.9
----------

* Math support via matplotlib (no TeX required)
* Huge bug in header/footer page numbers/section names fixed
* Several bugs in nested lists fixed (not 100% correct yet, but better)
* Lists that don't start at 1 work now
* Nicer definition lists

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

Best regards,

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