Nils Kassube <nika@comunit.de> writes:
Before I spend a lot of time to reinvent the wheel, well, has anyone here build a StructuredText to PDF converter with ReportLab?
I'd like to provide a string with a STNG document and get a sequence of flowable objects (Paragraphs, etc) back. Anyone? Please... :-)
I do not have an interface between STX and Reportlab but I have managed to generate PDF. I used a ZWiki to get people generating content and commenting on it. I then wrote an external method to extract the content in HTML form, minus the comments, and feed this to htmltops[1] and ps2pdf[2]. The resulting PDF is quite clean: the text is justified and correctly hyphenated, tables and images are handled and there are bookmarks for the headings. I wondered if anyone had written a STX backend for LaTeX. Then you could use the same kind of trick to go via Prosper [3] to get animated PDF presentations from STX. Collaborative ZPowerPoint! --- Alastair Footnotes: [1] http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html [2] This comes with ghostscript. [3] http://prosper.sourceforge.net/