The usual way of creating PDF from reStructuredText is by going through LaTeX. rst2pdf provides an alternative by producing PDF directly using the ReportLab library.
Installation:
Download it from this site, then
install manually
python setup.py install
or try the egg with the provided buildout:
python bootstrap.py
bin/buildout
you'll get a rst2pdf executable in the bin directory
or get it via PyPI:
easy_install rst2pdf
Product's homepage
Here are some key features of "rst2pdf":
· User-defined page layout. Multiple frames per page, multiple layouts per document.
· Cascading stylesheet mechanism, define only what you want changed.
· Supports TTF and Type1 font embedding.
· Any number of paragraph styles using the class directive.
· Any number of character styles using text roles.
· Custom page sizes and margins.
· Syntax highlighter for many languages, using Pygments.
· Supports embedding almost any kind of raster or vector images.
· Fast
· Supports hyphenation (using wordaxe).
· Full user's manual (PDF version)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Many bugs were fixed.
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