[reportlab-users] Rst2pdf version 0.16 is out!

[Roberto Alsina]

Finally, a new release of rst2pdf!

You can get it at its site: http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com

rst2pdf is a tool to convert restructured text (a light, cool markup language) 
to PDF using reportlab instead of LaTeX.

It has been used for many things, from books, to magazines, to brochures, to 
manuals, to websites and has lots of features:

* Font embedding (TTF or Type1 fonts)
* Cascading Stylesheets
* Extremely flexible plugin architecture (you can do things
  like render the headings from arbitrary SVG files!)
* Sphinx integration.
* Configurable page layouts
* Custom cover pages via templates
* And much, much more...

The biggest change in 0.16 is surely the improved support for Sphinx 1.0.x so 
if you are using Sphinx, you really want this version.

Also, it has a ton of bugfixes, and a few minor but useful new features.

Here's the whole changelog if you don't believe me:

* Fixed Issue 343: Plugged memory leak in the RSON parser.
* Fix for Issue 287: there is still a corner case if you have two sections
  with the same title, at the same level, in the same page, in different files
  where the links will break.
* Fixed Issue 367: german-localized dates are MM. DD. YYYY so when used in 
sphinx's
  template cover they appeared weird, like a list item. Fixed with a minor 
workaround in 
  the template.
* Fixed Issue 366: links to "#" make no sense on a PDF file
* Made definitions from definition lists more stylable.
* Moved definition lists to SplitTables, so you can have very long
  definitions.
* Fixed Issue 318: Implemented Domain specific indexes for Sphinx 1.0.x
* Fixed Index links when using Sphinx/pdfbuilder.
* Fixed Issue 360: Set literal.wordWrap to None by default so it doesn't 
inherit
  wordWrap CJK when you use the otherwise correct japanese settings. In any 
case,
  literal blocks are not supposed to wrap at all.
* Switched pdfbuilder to use SplitTables by default (it made no sense not to 
do it)
* Fixed Issue 365: some TTF fonts don't validate but they work anyway.
* Set a valid default baseurl for Sphinx (makes it much faster!)
* New feature: --use-numbered-links to show section numbers in links to 
sections, like  "See section 2.3 Termination"
* Added stylesheets for landscape paper sizes (i.e: a4-landscape.style)
* Fixed Issue 364: Some options not respected when passed in per-doc options
  in sphinx.
* Fixed Issue 361: multiple linebreaks in line blocks were collapsed.
* Fixed Issue 363: strange characters in some cases in math directive.
* Fixed Issue 362: Smarter auto-enclosing of equations in $...$
* Fixed Issue 358: --real--footnotes defaults to False, but help text 
indicates default is True
* Fixed Issue 359: Wrong --fit-background-mode help string
* Fixed Issue 356: missing cells if a cell spawns rows and columns.
* Fixed Issue 349: Work correctly with languages that are available in form  
aa_bb and not aa (example: zh_cn)
* Fixed Issue 345: give file/line info when there is an error in a raw PDF 
directive.
* Fixed Issue 336: JPEG images should work even without PIL (but give a 
warning because
  sizes will probably be wrong)
* Fixed Issue 351: footnote/citation references were generated incorrectly, 
which
  caused problems if there was a citation with the same text as a heading.
* Fixed Issue 353: better handling of graphviz, so that it works without 
vectorpdf
  but gives a warning about it.
* Fixed Issue 354: make todo_node from sphinx customizable.
* Fixed bug where nested lists broke page layout if the page was small.
* Smarter --inline-links option
* New extension: fancytitles, see 
http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/posts/BB906.html
* New feature: tab-width option in code-block directive (defaults to 8).
* Fixed Issue 340: endnotes/footnotes were not styled.
* Fixed Issue 339: class names using _ were not usable.
* Fixed Issue 335: ugly crash when using images in some
  specific places (looks like a reportlab bug)
* Fixed Issue 329: make the figure alignment/class attributes
  work more like LaTeX than HTML. 
* Fixed Issue 328: list item styles were being ignored.
* Fixed Issue 186: new --use-floating-images makes images with
  :align: set work like in HTML, with the next flowable flowing
  beside it.
* Fixed Issue 307: header/footer from stylesheet now supports inline
  rest markup and substitutions defined in the main document.
* New pdf_toc_depth option for Sphinx/pdfbuilder
* New pdf_use_toc option for Sphinx/pdfbuilder
* Fixed Issue 308: compatibility with reportlab from SVN
* Fixed Issue 323: errors in the config.sample made it work weird.
* Fixed Issue 322: Image substitutions didn't work in document title. 
* Implemented Issue 321: underline and strikethrough available
  in stylesheet.
* Fixed Issue 317: Ugly error message when file does not exist