[reportlab-users] rst2pdf 0.13.1 released

Roberto Alsina ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar
Mon Mar 15 08:15:30 EDT 2010


Since I suck at making releases, 0.13 had a bug in its setup.py and was
missing a crucial file.

So, I just released 0.13.1 with that fixed.

On Monday 15 March 2010 08:09:31 Roberto Alsina wrote:

> I've just uploaded the 0.13 version of rst2pdf, a tool to convert

> reStructured text to PDF using Reportlab to http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com

>

> rst2pdf supports the full reSt syntax, works as a sphinx extension, and has

> many extras like limited support for TeX-less math, SVG images, embedding

> fragments from PDF documents, True Type font embedding, and much more.

>

> This is a major version, and has lots of improvements over 0.12.3,

> including but not limited to:

>

> * New TOC code (supports dots between title and page number)

> * New extension framework

> * New preprocessor extension

> * New vectorpdf extension

> * Support for nested stylesheets

> * New headerSeparator/footerSeparator stylesheet options

> * Foreground image support (useful for watermarks)

> * Support transparency (alpha channel) when specifying colors

> * Inkscape extension for much better SVG support

> * Ability to show total page count in header/footer

> * New RSON format for stylesheets (JSON superset)

> * Fixed Issue 267: Support :align: in figures

> * Fixed Issue 174 regression (Indented lines in line blocks)

> * Fixed Issue 276: Load stylesheets from strings

> * Fixed Issue 275: Extra space before lineblocks

> * Fixed Issue 262: Full support for Reportlab 2.4

> * Fixed Issue 264: Splitting error in some documents

> * Fixed Issue 261: Assert error with wordaxe

> * Fixed Issue 251: added support for rst2pdf extensions when using sphinx

> * Fixed Issue 256: ugly crash when using SVG images without SVG support

> * Fixed Issue 257: support aafigure when using sphinx/pdfbuilder

> * Initial support for graphviz extension in pdfbuilder

> * Fixed Issue 249: Images distorted when specifiying width and height

> * Fixed Issue 252: math directive conflicted with sphinx

> * Fixed Issue 224: Tables can be left/center/right aligned in the page.

> * Fixed Issue 243: Wrong spacing for second paragraphs in bullet lists.

> * Big refactoring of the code.

> * Support for Python 2.4

> * Fully reworked test suite, continuous integration site.

> * Optionally use SWFtools for PDF images

> * Fixed Issue 231 (Smarter TTF autoembed)

> * Fixed Issue 232 (HTML tags in title metadata)

> * Fixed Issue 247 (printing stylesheet)



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