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"I would like to thank the people mentioned in brackets in this change log
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very much for their help and support!" - Dirk
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Version 3.0.32, 2009-05-08
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- NEW: New command line option '--base' to specify base path if input comes
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- FIX: The 'keep in frame' feature for tables did not work inside of static
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frames (Arun Shanker Prasad)
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Version 3.0.31, 2009-05-04
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- NEW: Support for Style "list-style-image", also supports "zoom"
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- NEW: Temporary files internally are written to disk if they exceed a certain size
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- NEW: Font names can now also read from external URL
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- UPD: Modified pdfjoiner.py demo
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- FIX: Custom font image problem still appeared
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- FIX: Single image in a block issue
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- FIX: Randomly used wrong images is fixed using a workaround for the bug
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in Reportlab _digester routine
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- FIX: Empty tables error (Davide Moro)
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- FIX: Fallback to urllib2 if httpdlib fails
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Version 3.0.30, 2009-03-27
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- NEW: Default CSS now hides content of <noscript>
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- UPD: Better whitespace handling in RL Paragraph
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- FIX: Fixed RL Paragraph.split to work with autoleading and images
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- FIX: Small bug fix for show_error_as_pdf
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- FIX: Demos used os.startfile which is not supported on non Windows OSes
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- FIX: Table available height threw exceptions
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- FIX: Switched from urllib2 to httplib for loading external sources
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- FIX: Correct homepage and download page in setup.py
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- FIX: Paragraphs in lists repeated the bullet
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- FIX: Tables now support -pdf-keep-with-next
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- FIX: Add missing table columns to avoid error in Reportlab table
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- FIX: Fix for background images sizing
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- FIX: Empty documents now create one blank page
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- FIX: Imported fonts caused an error if used together with images
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Version 3.0.29, 2008-12-01
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- NEW: Warning if Reportlab 2.2 is not installed
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- UPD: Better support for named colors
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- UPD: Modifed frame handling to better support relative values
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- FIX: Splitting paragraph threw errors some times; also had problems with
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line breaks on the second page, fix for RL 2.2 paragraph was needed
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- FIX: Added margins to <blockquote> default CSS
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- FIX: Inline images in static frames did not work
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- FIX: Link anchors and non internal fonts caused a strange error
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Version 3.0.28, 2008-11-21
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- NEW: Requires Reportlab 2.2 now!
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- NEW: Background colors for inline elements like <span>
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- NEW: Inline images and left and right aligned images implemented
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- NEW: Possibility to handle table cells that are to large via CSS option
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-pdf-keep-in-frame-mode
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- NEW: Option "--system" for command line tool to dump system version infos
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- NEW: CSS attribute -pdf-line-spacing for fix space between lines
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- NEW: Creation and handling of data URI with base64 encoding (others to come)
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- NEW: New general file loader that is also able to load remote data and data URI
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- NEW: PDF Joiner to concatenate many PDF and pisa documents
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- NEW: Page backgrounds can now be images or PDF
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- NEW: Visual Unittests based on ImageMagick and TortoiseIDiff (for Windows)
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- NEW: Pisa raises execptions now if errors occure; with
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pisaDocument(..., raise_execeptions=False) you can turn them off
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- UPD: Paragraphs now use the maximum leading to avoid overlapping text
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- UPD: Removed "Keep with next" from H1 to H6
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- FIX: Sizing of images is now handled better; should better work with PIL
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- FIX: Border handling of paragraphs optimized and fixed
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- FIX: Images that are higher than the page frame are scaled down to fit
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- FIX: Paragraphs only containing are rendered
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- FIX: Problem regarding the order of border style definitions
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- FIX: Single <br> between two blocks now creates a new line
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- FIX: Set table attribute "repeat" to "0"
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- FIX: Some <font> attributes did not work as expected
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- FIX: Font sizes reworked to behave like browser implmentations
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- FIX: Like in most HTML browser table cells now have "valign=middle" and
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table headers have font weight bold
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- FIX: Little fix in CSS parsing
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- FIX: Default of <link media=""> was "screen", changed to "all"
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- FIX: Command line tools did not install with "easy_install"
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Version 3.0.27, 2008-10-04
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- INF: License changed from Qt to GPLv2
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- INF: Not yet completely combatible with Reportlab 2.2 ( errors and borders)
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- NEW: Command line tool called "xhtml" ("pisa" still available but will
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be deprecatedwith pisa 3.1)
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- NEW: EGG for Python 2.6
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- NEW: Basic support for Data URI
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- NEW: New style -pdf-keep-with-next (does not work with pdf:toc for now)
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- UPD: Setup now exclusively works with SetupTools
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Version 3.0.26, 2008-08-28
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- FIX: Python <2.5 didn't work because of a syntax error
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Version 3.0.25, 2008-08-15
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- UPD: Made imports more explicit to avoid import recursions
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- FIX: <pdf:pagenumber/> didn't work in tables (Roman Lisagor)
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- FIX: Images without suffixes have been ignored by pisa (Henning von Bargen)
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- INF: Preparations for support of HTML FORM using INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT
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Version 3.0.24, 2008-07-14
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- NEW: Support for separate borders on each side of a paragraph has
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been added (Robin Dunn)
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- NEW: Support for font tag (color, face, size)
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- UPD: Handling of margin and padding in paragraphs is improved (Robin Dunn)
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- UPD: Updated documentation (CreatePDF, Images)
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- FIX: A typo in margin-left has been fixed (Robin Dunn)
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Version 3.0.23, 2008-06-26
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- UPD: getColor() now understands colors like rgb(255,0,0) (Darryl Dixon)
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- FIX: c.warning threw errors if no arguments where passed (Searle)
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- FIX: pisa now works with html5lib 0.11.1
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http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/issues/detail?id=74
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Version 3.0.22, 2008-06-06
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- UPD: Updated documentation
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- UPD: Speed optimizations by removing copy.deepcopy (Darryl Dixon)
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- FIX: Small fix in CSS parser
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Version 3.0.21, 2008-06-05
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- FIX: Used a parameter for html5lib that was not supported by html5lib 0.10
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- FIX: Now tested against the latest third party packages:
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Version 3.0.20, 2008-06-02
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- NEW: New parameter "encoding" to explicitly set an encoding for the source data
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- UPD: Added a programming example to documentation
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- FIX: If a Unicode string is passed it will automatically be converted to UTF8
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- FIX: Fixes for Google AppEngine support
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- FIX: If possible cStringIO will be used instead of StringIO
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- FIX: An exception in psaDocument was not handled the right way because
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a context object was expected
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Version 3.0.19, 2008-05-31
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- NEW: Support for Google AppEngine
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- NEW: Support for page break before and after [not yet tested] (Luka Frelih)
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- UPD: Reworked parts of the documentation but not yet completed
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- UPD: Optimized the command line tool "pisa"
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- FIX: TOC bugs regarding entities and additional tags inside the TOC
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entry definitions (Luka Frelih)
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- FIX: Default logging didn't work with Python<2.5 (Anders J. Munch)
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- FIX: StringIO is used instead of cStringIO to avoid encoding problems
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like the ones we had with GoogleAppEngine
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Version 3.0.18, 2008-04-19
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- WIN: Updated the windows command line version
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- NEW: WSGI support and demo
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- NEW: Added simple ASPN Cookbook example
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- UPD: Unified setup.py and setup_egg.py (Andreas Gabriel)
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- UPD: Better handling of XML and HTML parsing
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- UPD: Cleanup of Django sample
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- UPD: Cleanup of command line tool options
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- UPD: Command line tool doesn't stop batch if error occurred any more
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- FIX: 'style' attribute was not evaluated!
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- FIX: If a string was passed to pisaDocument it had been converted to StringIO,
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which was not necessary
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- FIX: c.addPara(force=True) works again e.g. for forcing empty pages
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- FIX: Better handling of CDATA and Comments
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- FIX: Better handling of
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- FIX: Removed rsplit() for backward compatibility with Python 2.3
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- FIX: Handling of inconsistent HTML anchors
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- FIX: TurboGears Demo
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Version 3.0.17, 2008-03-23
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- NEW: Added CSS support for TOC and updated documentation (Jean Baltus)
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- UPD: Added "render_to_pdf" to Django demo (Diego Firmenich)
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- UPD: Did some refactoring to make CSS parsing more flexible
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- UPD: Removed log.exception for warnings
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- FIX: Empty entries in TOC (Jean Baltus)
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- FIX: Use correct font for <li> now (reported by Gabor Farkas)
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Version 3.0.16, 2008-03-16
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- Did some researches about support for languages like Farsi, Arabic and Asian
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languages. The dir='rtl' feature seems to be quite time intensive to be
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implemented, maybe I will do it in a later version or on request
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- Switched back to HTML parsing by default, but use of XHTML is recommended. Use
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the option "xhtml" in pisaDocument or "-x" in the command line tool
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- Added a decorator for use in Turbogears and CherryPy
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- Completely switched to Python logging system
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- Created a separate download for the fonts in the "test" directory to
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reduce the size of the package
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- Just use multiBuild if needed e.g. using pdf:toc
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- Bugfix: @font-face threw always a warning about font-weight
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- Bugfix: List points have to be always in "Helvetica" (Gabor Farkas)
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- Bugfix: Obligatory attributes for tag had not been handle the right way
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- Bugfix: Marked some old tag based functionalities like pdf:font, pdf:frame and
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pdf:template as deprecated
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Version 3.0.15, 2008-03-13
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- Added new package and namespace "ho". With pisa 3.1. we will move away form "sx"
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- Added version testing (2.1) for Reportlab Toolkit (Diego Firmenich)
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- Added new command <pdf:toc> for support of table of contents, stiling per CSS
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has not been implemented yet (Jean Baltus)
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- Added simple barcode support via command <pdf:barcode> (Diego Firmenich)
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- Added Python logging. Name of logger "ho.pisa" and "ho.css". Set debugging
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level in command line tool by using "-d" for debugging and "-w" for warnings
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- Added complete support for CSS "font"
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- Modified the version handling and setup system for pisa distributions (had to
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do with the import errors that where not thrown, reported by Schmitte)
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- Updated documentation and added a CSS for HTML version
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- Bugfix: CSS "background" URL handling was broken (Luis Bruno)
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- Bugfix: CSS "border" now works more standard conform
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- Bugfix for compatibility problems with Python 2.3 because of reversed() function
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- Bugfix: No exception was thrown if a third party module was missing (Kai Schmitte)
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- Bugfix: Changed HTML5 parser from HTMLParser to XHTMLParser so that the
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custom tags of the "pdf" namespace are handled like expected
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- Bugfix: Switched from urllib to urllib2 because status errors (like 404) where
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not handled (Kees Hink)
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- A lot of smaller bugfixes and testings
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Version 3.0.14, 2008-02-13
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- Added a sample for Unicode support in exotic languages like "farsi" using
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DejaSans font (Adam Hyde)
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- Command line tool generation integrated into setup.py (Andreas Gabriel)
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- Bugfix if no path had been set to pisaDocument()
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- Bugfix for calculating @frame dimensions
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- Bugfix: CSS comments like "//" where allowed (Andreas Gabriel)
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Version 3.0.13, 2008-01-22
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- Added a demo using cherrypy web server and kid
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- Added a demo using django framework
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- Modified test-background.html to work with CSS
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- Added suport for bold and italic TTF fonts to the @font-face
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CSS section (Robert Klep)
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- Added suport for bold and italic Postscript fonts to the @font-face CSS section
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- The @-rules are not need a trailing space after ident any more (Robert Klep)
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- Fixed the Windows standalone version to work
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- Made the 'sx' folder more sharable by modifying __init__.py
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- Changed font-weight so that only values starting with '400'are
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considered 'bold' (Robert Klep)
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- Added "text-indent" style (Robert Klep)
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- Added "-pdf-keep-with-next" style to avoid page break between
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certain elements (Robert Klep)
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- Added "-pdf-outline", "-pdf-outline-level" and "-pdf-outline-open" styles to
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create PDF bookmarks. Per default this is defined for
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the tags H1 to H6 (Robert Klep)
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- New option to overwrite the default CSS definitions of pisa
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- New command line options --css
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- New command line options --css-dump to get the default CSS definitions.
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A dump of the recent CSS default may also be found in test/default.css
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- Added EGG installation file support
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Version 3.0.12, 2008-01-09
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- Moved SVN repository to Holtwick
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- Modified copyright notes and links to http://www.htmltopdf.org/
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- Added new table attributes "border", "bordercolor", "cellpadding"
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- Added support for
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Version 3.0.11, 2007-11-13
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- New example for loading a page form the web via Python
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- New example "test-invoice.html"
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- Added support for "align" attribute to <td> and <th>
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- Fixed that more than one static frame can use the same named element
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- Added -pdf-next-page to specify next page template
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- Added -pdf-frame-break: after, before
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- Fixed bug for @page without declarations
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- Added option for output of errors as PDF (e.g. useful in web applications)
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- Set "producer" to "pisa"
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- Set author, subject and keywords with <meta>
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Version 3.0.10, 2007-11-02
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- Fixed some problems with wrong @page and @frame definitions
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- New property -pdf-frame-box
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- Implemented a pre parser for CSS that cleans up the code with some
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regular expression, like stripping illegal url(http://...)
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- Improved online demo
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- First release of binary Windows command line version or pisa
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- Fixed some issues with named anchors
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- Empty documents are now delivered correctly
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- Fixed error on list types
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- Fixed problem with debugging infos
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Version 3.0.9, 2007-10-31
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- Modified setup.py for Chesse Shop
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- Added bdist_wininst to setup
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- Moved w3c into sx package and added license text
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- Modified simple.py demo script
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- Clean up for first public release
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Version 3.0.8, 2007-10-31
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- Added <a name> and a bugfix for ReportLab anchors
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- More documentation about fonts and new font aliases
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- Fixed some bugs in tables
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- <hr> now uses ReportLabs implementation
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- Margin collapse by using spaceBefore and spaceAfter
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- Renamed -pdf-page-size to size (CSS3)
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Version 3.0.7, 2007-10-30
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- Static frames in @frame
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- Wrote layout section in documentation
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- Updated the documentation CSS
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- Renamed @box to @frame
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- Added -pdf-page-size and -pdf-page-orientation
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- Added @page and @box
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- Fixed some problems with font definitions and Unicode
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- Font "Times" does not exist, changed default to "Times-Roman"
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- Margins, paddings and borders are only applied in display:block elements
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Version 3.0.6, 2007-10-29
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- Implemented @font-face
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- "font-family" can now handle comma separated font names
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- Implemented <pdf:font> for embedding TTF and PS fonts
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- <link> looks for rel="stylesheet"
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- Style "white-space" and support for PRE
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- Nested lists and ordered lists, Style "list-style-type"
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- Prepared parser for @page and @box
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Version 3.0.5, 2007-10-25
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- Initial implementation of @font-face
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- Warnings are only shown if flag -w is set
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- Relative @import implementations
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- Workaround for styles beginning with asterics like "*font: small"
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- Support for color=transparent (threw Exceptions before)
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- For @import with now media, is now set media=all
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- Fixed the .1 CSS parser problem
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- Removed cssutils again because of problems with @import
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- Ignore CDATA in style definitions
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- New method c.debug and command line option --debug
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- CSS attributes may now start with hyphen for vendor
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specific styles e.g. "-pdf-page-break"
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- Implemented @import
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- Images are now recalculated to 96DPI too
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- 1px = 1/96inch (96dpi) instead of 1px = 1pt = 1/72inch
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- Added some new tests like test-css-media.html
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- Initial versions of pisa rewrite
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