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date: 2009/09/15 22:53
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title: Preparing a rst2pdf release for next week
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Since this is the first post that appears in Planet Python, a small intro is in order.

Hi, my name is Roberto Alsina, I am a former KDE developer, amateur programmer [1]_ , python fan.

This post (and many you will see from me) is about rst2pdf_, a tool to convert restructured text to PDF. For example, it turns the python library reference into this `PDF`_ (not production quality yet).

.. _PDF: http://freedrive.com/file/951401

If you are a rst2pdf_ 0.11 user, or a sphinx_ or docutils_ user who wants to try an alternative way to create PDFs, then I would like your help testing the SVN trunk code.

These are some of the new features since 0.11:

* PDFBuilder, a Sphinx extension to generate PDFs.

* Kerning (requires wordaxe from SVN)

* AAFigure_ support (diagrams using ASCII Art)

* PageBreaks can be odd/even/any

* Support for advanced page counters (manual numbering, roman/arabic/letters)

* Much better styling, specially for tables.

* About two dozen bugfixes.

So, please, take a look, you may like it!

.. _sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

.. _docutils: http://docutils.sf.net

.. _rst2pdf: http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com

.. _aafigure: https://launchpad.net/aafigure

.. [1] That just means I love programming.