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date: 2009/05/15 00:01
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title: Released rst2pdf 0.10!
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updated: 2009/05/15 00:01
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After 8 months (!) it's finally out: rst2pdf 0.10 ready for downloading from its homepage_.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, rst2pdf lets you create PDF files from a simple, very lightly marked pure text format called `restructured text`_ and is the easiest way to create nice documentation for your free software project and more!

Here is the manual_ which is created using rst2pdf itself from this_.

.. _this: http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/manual.txt

.. _restructured text: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

.. _manual: //ralsina.me/static/manual.pdf

And here's a (maybe partial) list of the changes, which should convince you that you really want this version:

* Issue 87: Table headers can be repeated in each page (thanks to Yasushi Masuda)
* Issue 93: Line number support for code blocks (:linenos: true)
* Issue 111: Added --no-footnote-backlinks option
* Issue 107: Support localized directives/roles (example: sommaire instead of contents)
* Issue 112: Fixed crash when processing empty list items
* Issue 98: Nobreak support, and set as default for inline-literals so they don't hyphenate.
* Slightly better tests
* Background colors in text styles work with reportlab 2.3
* Issue 99: Fixed hyphenation in headers/footers (requires wordaxe 0.3.2)
* Issue 106: Crash on demo.txt fixed (requires wordxe 0.3.2)
* Issue 102: Implemented styles for bulleted and numbered lists
* Issue 38: Default headers/footers via options, config file or stylesheet
* Issue 88: Implemented much better book-style TOCs
* Issue 100: Fixed bug with headers/footers and Reportlab 2.3
* Issue 95: Fixed bug with indented tables
* Issue 89: Implemented --version
* Issue 84: Fixed bug with relative include paths
* Issue 85: Fixed bug with table cell styles
* Issue 83: Fixed bug with numeric colors in backColor attribute
* Issue 44: Support for stdin and stdout
* Issue 79: Added --stylesheet-path option
* Issue 80: Send warnings to stderr, not stdout
* Issue 66: Implemented "smart quotes"
* Issue 77: Work around missing matplotlib
* Proper translation of labels (such as "Author", "Version" etc.) using the
  docutils languages package. (r473)
* Fixed problems with wrong or non-existing fonts. (r484)
* Page transition effect support for presentations (r423)


.. _homepage: http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com