rst2pdf 0.8

Convert restructured text to PDF via reportlab.

Copyright (c) 2007,2008 Roberto Alsina <[e-mail]>,
Nicolas Laurance, Christoph Zwerschke.

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Detailed Documentation
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To use hyphenation you need wordaxe from http://deco-cow.sf.net
(ignore the page, it's outdated, just get the wordaxe file) and
optionally pyHnj, from http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/pyHnj/

Contributors
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* Roberto Alsina <ralsina at netmanagers dot com dot ar>
* Nicolas Laurance <nlaurance at zindep dot com>
* Christoph Zwerschke

Change history
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New in 0.8
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* Support for vector graphics: SVG, EPS, PS, CDR and others (requires uniconvertor)
* Support for stdin and stdout, so you can use rst2pdf in pipes.
* Works with reportlab 2.1 and 2.2
* Simpler stylesheets (guess bulletFontName, leading, bulletFontSize from other parameters)
* Some support for sphinx
* Fixed the docutils Writer interface
* Continue processing when an image is missing
* Support for user config file
* Font sizes can be expressed in units or % of parent style's size
* Larger font size in the default stylesheet

New in 0.7
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* Automatic Type1 and True Type font embedding. Just use the font or family name, and (with a little luck), it will be embedded for you.
* width attribute in styles, to create narrow paragraphs/tables
* Styles for table headers and table cells
* "Zebra tables"
* Improvements in the handling of overflowing literal blocks (code, for instance)
* Different modes to handle too-large literal blocks: overflow/truncate/shrink.
* Real sidebars and "floating" elements.
* Fixed link style (no ugly black underlining!)

New in 0.6
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* Stylesheet-defined page layout (For example, multicolumn) and layout switching
* Cascading Stylesheets (change exactly what you need changed)
* PDF table of contents
* Current section names and numbers in headers/footers
* Support for compressed PDF files
* Link color is configurable
* Fixed bugs in color handling
* Multilingual hyphenation
* Auto-guessing image size, support for sizes in %
* Gutter margins
* Big refactoring
* More tolerant of minor problems
* Limited _raw_ directive (you can insert pagebreaks and vertical space)
* Implemented a "traditional" docutils writer
* Offer a reasonable API for use as a library
* Fixed copyright/licensing
* code-block now supports including files (whole or in part) so you can highlight external code.


New in 0.5
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* Support for :widths: in tables
* Support for captions in tables
* Support for multi-row headers in tables
* Improved definition lists
* Fixed bug in image directive
* Whitespace conforming to PEP8
* Fixed bug in text size on code-block
* Package is more setuptools compliant
* Fix for option groups in option lists
* Citations support
* Title reference role fix

New in 0.4
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* Fixed bullet and item lists indentation/nesting.
* Implemented citations
* Working links between footnotes and its references
* Justification enabled by default
* Fixed table bug (demo.txt works now)
* Title and author support in PDF properties
* Support for document title in header/footer
* Custom page sizes and margins

New in 0.3
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* Font embedding (use any True Type font in your PDFs)
* Syntax highlighter using Pygments
* User's manual
* External/custom stylesheets
* Support for page numbers in header/footer
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