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author: ''
category: ''
date: 2009/09/25 14:35
description: ''
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slug: BB836
tags: programming, pyqt, python, qt, rst2pdf
title: It shall be called Bookrest, and it has an outline view.
type: text
updated: 2009/09/25 14:35
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Yes, the program known so far as "my rst2pdf editor/previewer application" is now called Bookrest.

What's a bookrest? It's a thing you put a book on.

Why Bookrest? I hope someday people will have books open in bookrest. Plus, it ends with "rest", which is the preferred abbreviation for reStructured Text.

And what's the outline view? It's a clickable tree with the outline of the document, of course.

As usual, let's go to the video:

.. raw:: html

   <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IioBrwEHHk4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IioBrwEHHk4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

The background rendering was done using python's awesome `multiprocessing <http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html>`_ module.