rst2pdf 0.13.1 released

Roberto Alsina ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar
Mon Mar 15 13:15:30 CET 2010


Since I suck at making releases, 0.13 had a bug in its setup.py and was 
missing a crucial file.

So, I just released 0.13.1 with that fixed.

On Monday 15 March 2010 08:09:31 Roberto Alsina wrote:
> I've just uploaded the 0.13 version of rst2pdf, a tool to convert
> reStructured text to PDF using Reportlab to http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com
> 
> rst2pdf supports the full reSt syntax, works as a sphinx extension, and has
> many extras like limited support for TeX-less math, SVG images, embedding
> fragments from PDF documents, True Type font embedding, and much more.
> 
> This is a major version, and has lots of improvements over 0.12.3,
> including but not limited to:
> 
> * New TOC code (supports dots between title and page number)
> * New extension framework
> * New preprocessor extension
> * New vectorpdf extension
> * Support for nested stylesheets
> * New headerSeparator/footerSeparator stylesheet options
> * Foreground image support (useful for watermarks)
> * Support transparency (alpha channel) when specifying colors
> * Inkscape extension for much better SVG support
> * Ability to show total page count in header/footer
> * New RSON format for stylesheets (JSON superset)
> * Fixed Issue 267: Support :align: in figures
> * Fixed Issue 174 regression (Indented lines in line blocks)
> * Fixed Issue 276: Load stylesheets from strings
> * Fixed Issue 275: Extra space before lineblocks
> * Fixed Issue 262: Full support for Reportlab 2.4
> * Fixed Issue 264: Splitting error in some documents
> * Fixed Issue 261: Assert error with wordaxe
> * Fixed Issue 251: added support for rst2pdf extensions when using sphinx
> * Fixed Issue 256: ugly crash when using SVG images without SVG support
> * Fixed Issue 257: support aafigure when using sphinx/pdfbuilder
> * Initial support for graphviz extension in pdfbuilder
> * Fixed Issue 249: Images distorted when specifiying width and height
> * Fixed Issue 252: math directive conflicted with sphinx
> * Fixed Issue 224: Tables can be left/center/right aligned in the page.
> * Fixed Issue 243: Wrong spacing for second paragraphs in bullet lists.
> * Big refactoring of the code.
> * Support for Python 2.4
> * Fully reworked test suite, continuous integration site.
> * Optionally use SWFtools for PDF images
> * Fixed Issue 231 (Smarter TTF autoembed)
> * Fixed Issue 232 (HTML tags in title metadata)
> * Fixed Issue 247 (printing stylesheet)


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