Rst2pdf 0.93 released

2012-12-18 16:58

A bit ahead of schedule, I just uploaded version 0.93 of rst2pdf a tool to convert restructured text into PDF files.

Here are some of the changes in this version:

Fixed Issue 447: Double-sided always starts on the right (By Rob Ludwick)
- Removed --first-page-even as it was not used anywhere.
- Added --first-page-on-right
Fixed Issue 464: support alignment via :class: in image directives.
Fixed Issue 482: Line blocks with indented parts get extraneous spacing
Fixed Issue 470: Support for :target: in figures.
New style "image" to be applied to image directives.
Fixed Issue 485: Better styling support for figures/images (spaceBefore/After)
Support rst2pdf [inf [outf]] syntax to be more compatible with rst2*
Implemented Issue 389: New --strip-element-with-class option
Fixed Issue 474: CellStyle1 is not there in reportlab 2.6
Removed default padding from DelayedTable, which looked bad on headers/footers.
Improvements to the math directive (font color and size)
Better support for styling literals.
Fixed Issue 454 (Splitting failure)
Regressed Issue 374 (some literal blocks get oversplit)
Switched from svglib to svg2rlg
Removed uniconvertor support
Fixed Issue 477: Sink footnote separator (patch by asermax)
Fixed Issue 473: Support "code" directive like an alias of code-block.
Fixed Issue 472: Implemented MyImage._unRestrictSize
Fixed Issue 471: Respect class in lineblocks.
Fixed Issue 455: New pisa/xhtml2pdf has very different imports
Marked Issue 358 as fixed.
Fixed Issue 410: always include full lines in code-blocks (mmueller patch)

Nikola is Python 2 1/2 ready

2012-12-17 16:20

On my free time, lunch hours, and such I have been tweaking Nikola, my static site generator to make it python 3 friendly. Well, I somewhat-accidentally-my-dog-made-me-do-it may have committed a lot of that into master.

So, right now, things may be somewhat broken on python2 and somewhat working a little on python3.

In any case, feel free to try it out, and let me know what to fix.

Rst2pdf progress

2012-12-13 22:11

I have set for myself a priority list of bugs that bother me in rst2pdf, my tool to convert restructured text into PDFs in order of decreasing shamefulness.

I have been fixing a few today (early morning + late night hack) so the following is now correct:

Use of included stylesheets
Vertical spacing of indented lineblocks
Use of :target: in figure directives

There are 46 open issues but I am not planning on fixing them all. My personal hitlist has 10 more bugs in it, but regardless of how many I fix, I intend to release anyway, because:

Last release is broken with latest reportlab
Last release is a bit broken with docutils 0.10 which will be out soon
Last release was over six months ago

And that last one is the critical one. Working at Canonical has shown me that release cadence is good. Specially in a project where trunk is very rarely broken (like rst2pdf) there is no reason for slow release cycles. Rst2pdf should release monthly.

I fully intend to take that approach, so the next release will be done on December 21st.

¡Python 2 Debe Morir! -- Charla en PyCon Argentina 2012

2012-12-11 14:32

Spanish post because it's about a video in spanish. Fell free to watch it anyway, of course ;-)

Gracias a los organizadores de PyCon Argentina 2012, ya está disponible el video de mi charla "¡Python 2 debe morir!".

Si quieren ir siguiendo los slides, están acá

Y acá está el video:

No estoy super feliz con mi charla, me veo confuso, con problemas de manejo de tiempo, y muy pelado. Vean los videos de las otras charlas, que están muy buenos! :-)

Rst2PDF Release Plans

2012-12-08 22:58

I have spent a little time on rst2pdf these last few days. It doesn't look too bad, considering the long neglect, but there is some breakage.

After going over almost 300 integration tests by hand, I identified a few regressions (and a couple of bugs that fixed themselves, yay).

So, in order to do a release, I am hoping to fix these:

I probably will not fix them all, and trunk works much better for many cases than 0.92 so I should not block a release on any of these, really. I will give myself a couple of weeks to see how many (if any) I can get done.

On the other hand, if anyone reading this feels adventurous, and wants to lend a hand, help is always welcome.

In the meantime, this is a list of what's changed in trunk from version 0.92:

Support rst2pdf [inf [outf]] syntax to be more compatible with rst2*
Implemented Issue 389: New --strip-element-with-class option
Fixed Issue 474: CellStyle1 is not there in reportlab 2.6
Removed default padding from DelayedTable, which looked bad on headers/footers.
Improvements to the math directive (font color and size)
Better support for styling literals.
Fixed Issue 454 (Splitting failure)
Switched from svglib to svg2rlg
Removed uniconvertor support
Fixed Issue 477: Sink footnote separator (patch by asermax)
Fixed Issue 473: Support "code" directive like an alias of code-block.
Fixed Issue 472: Implemented MyImage._unRestrictSize
Fixed Issue 471: Respect class in lineblocks.
Fixed Issue 455: New pisa/xhtml2pdf has very different imports
Marked Issue 358 as fixed (Literal blocks rendered with large bottom margin)
Fixed Issue 410: always include full lines in code-blocks (mmueller patch)

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Rst2pdf 0.93 released

Nikola is Python 2 1/2 ready

Rst2pdf progress

¡Python 2 Debe Morir! -- Charla en PyCon Argentina 2012

Rst2PDF Release Plans