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Rst2pdf 0.16 is out!

Fi­nal­ly, a new re­lease of rst2pdf!

You can get it at its site: http://rst2pdf.­google­code.­com

rst2pdf is a tool to con­vert re­struc­tured text (a light, cool markup lan­guage) to PDF us­ing re­port­lab in­stead of La­TeX.

It has been used for many things, from book­s, to mag­a­zi­nes, to brochures, to man­u­al­s, to web­sites and has lots of fea­tures:

  • Font em­bed­d­ing (T­TF or Type1 fonts)

  • Cas­­cad­ing Stylesheets

  • Ex­treme­­ly flex­i­ble plug­in ar­chi­tec­­ture (y­ou can do things like ren­der the head­­ings from ar­bi­­trary SVG files!)

  • Sphinx in­­te­­gra­­tion.

  • Con­­fig­urable page lay­outs

  • Cus­­tom cov­­er pages via tem­­plates

  • And much, much more...

The big­gest change in 0.16 is sure­ly the im­proved sup­port for Sphinx 1.0.x so if you are us­ing Sphinx, you re­al­ly want this ver­sion.

Al­so, it has a ton of bug­fix­es, and a few mi­nor but use­ful new fea­tures.

Here's the whole changel­og if you don't be­lieve me:

  • Fixed Is­­sue 343: Plugged mem­o­ry leak in the RSON pars­er.

  • Fix for Is­­sue 287: there is still a cor­n­er case if you have two sec­­tions with the same ti­tle, at the same lev­­el, in the same page, in dif­fer­­ent files where the links will break.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 367: ger­­man-lo­­cal­ized dates are MM. DD. YYYY so when used in sphinx's tem­­plate cov­­er they ap­­peared weird, like a list item. Fixed with a mi­nor work­around in the tem­­plate.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 366: links to "#" make no sense on a PDF file

  • Made de­f­i­ni­­tions from de­f­i­ni­­tion lists more sty­lable.

  • Moved de­f­i­ni­­tion lists to Split­­Ta­bles, so you can have very long de­f­i­ni­­tion­s.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 318: Im­­ple­­men­t­ed Do­­main spe­­cif­ic in­­dex­es for Sphinx 1.0.x

  • Fixed In­­dex links when us­ing Sphinx/pdf­builder.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 360: Set lit­er­al.­­word­Wrap to None by de­­fault so it does­n't in­­her­it word­Wrap CJK when you use the oth­­er­­wise cor­rect ja­­pa­­nese set­t­ings. In any case, lit­er­al blocks are not sup­­posed to wrap at al­l.

  • Switched pdf­builder to use Split­­Ta­bles by de­­fault (it made no sense not to do it)

  • Fixed Is­­sue 365: some TTF fonts don't val­i­­date but they work any­way.

  • Set a valid de­­fault baseurl for Sphinx (makes it much faster!)

  • New fea­­ture: --use-num­bered-links to show sec­­tion num­bers in links to sec­­tion­s, like "See sec­­tion 2.3 Ter­mi­­na­­tion"

  • Added stylesheets for land­s­cape pa­per sizes (i.e: a4-­­land­s­cape.style)

  • Fixed Is­­sue 364: Some op­­tions not re­spec­t­ed when passed in per-­­doc op­­tions in sphinx.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 361: mul­ti­­ple line­breaks in line blocks were col­lapsed.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 363: strange char­ac­ters in some cas­es in math di­rec­­tive.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 362: Smarter au­­to-en­­clos­ing of equa­­tions in $...$

  • Fixed Is­­sue 358: --re­al--­­foot­notes de­­faults to False, but help text in­­di­­cates de­­fault is True

  • Fixed Is­­sue 359: Wrong --­­fit-back­­­ground-­­mode help string

  • Fixed Is­­sue 356: mis­s­ing cells if a cell spawns rows and col­umn­s.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 349: Work cor­rec­t­­ly with lan­guages that are avail­able in form aa_bb and not aa (ex­am­­ple: zh_c­n)

  • Fixed Is­­sue 345: give file/­­line in­­­fo when there is an er­ror in a raw PDF di­rec­­tive.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 336: JPEG im­ages should work even with­­out PIL (but give a warn­ing be­­cause sizes will prob­a­bly be wrong)

  • Fixed Is­­sue 351: foot­note/c­i­­ta­­tion re­f­er­ences were gen­er­at­ed in­­­cor­rec­t­­ly, which caused prob­lems if there was a ci­­ta­­tion with the same text as a head­­ing.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 353: bet­ter han­dling of graphviz, so that it works with­­out vec­­tor­pdf but gives a warn­ing about it.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 354: make todo_n­ode from sphinx cus­­tom­iz­a­ble.

  • Fixed bug where nest­ed lists broke page lay­out if the page was smal­l.

  • Smarter --in­­line-links op­­tion

  • New ex­ten­­sion: fan­­cyti­tles, see //ral­si­­na.me/we­blog/­­post­s/B­B906.html

  • New fea­­ture: tab-width op­­tion in code-block di­rec­­tive (de­­faults to 8).

  • Fixed Is­­sue 340: end­notes/­­foot­notes were not styled.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 339: class names us­ing _ were not us­able.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 335: ug­­ly crash when us­ing im­ages in some spe­­cif­ic places (looks like a re­­port­lab bug)

  • Fixed Is­­sue 329: make the fig­ure align­­men­t/­­class at­tributes work more like La­­TeX than HT­M­L.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 328: list item styles were be­ing ig­nored.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 186: new --use-float­ing-im­ages makes im­ages with :align: set work like in HT­M­L, with the next flow­able flow­ing be­­side it.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 307: head­­er/­­foot­er from stylesheet now sup­­ports in­­­line rest markup and sub­­sti­­tu­­tions de­fined in the main doc­u­­men­t.

  • New pdf_­­toc_depth op­­tion for Sphinx/pdf­builder

  • New pdf_use_­­toc op­­tion for Sphinx/pdf­builder

  • Fixed Is­­sue 308: com­­pat­i­­bil­i­­ty with re­­port­lab from SVN

  • Fixed Is­­sue 323: er­rors in the con­­fig.sam­­ple made it work weird.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 322: Im­age sub­­sti­­tu­­tions did­n't work in doc­u­­ment ti­­tle.

  • Im­­ple­­men­t­ed Is­­sue 321: un­der­­line and strikethrough avail­able in stylesheet.

  • Fixed Is­­sue 317: Ug­­ly er­ror mes­sage when file does not ex­ist

ZeD / 2010-10-07 07:32:

Just as a question: how does the python docs is, compared to the "official" one? I mean the pdfs in http://docs.python.org/down...

Roberto Alsina / 2010-10-07 14:37:

I haven't done the python docs this time around. Give me a couple of hours and I'll post the library reference somewhere.

Roberto Alsina / 2010-10-07 18:08:

Because the python docs still use Sphinx 0.6 there was a small patch I had to apply to rst2pdf, so I will release a 0.16.1 tomorrow.

OTOH, here are the pytho docs now:

Library reference: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/840...
Python lang. reference: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/840...
C-API: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/840...

They are all there but it's tiring to copy all the links, if you want to look any any specific file, I'll post it :-)

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employment background check / 2011-12-27 23:28:

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