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authorLukenShiro <lukenshiro@ngi.it>2010-05-11 22:24:21 +0200
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-11 22:24:21 +0200
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@@ -4,24 +4,23 @@ developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and
easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents.
It is released by ReportLab Inc., under BSD license.
+It includes binary extensions (previously available separately)
+_rl_accel and renderPM
+
It has the following features:
- create professional portable documents
- real document layout engine (Platypus)
-- flowable objects such as paragraphs, headlines, tables, images,
-graphics, etc.
+- flowable objects (paragraphs, headlines, tables, images, graphics, etc.)
- arbitrary Type-1 fonts
- bitmap images, vector graphics
- library of reusable primitive shapes
- extensible widget library
-- uses Python, a clean OO language
- layered architecture
- includes simple demos and more complex tools
- allows for any data sources
-- fully available source code
- strong community support
- platform-independent
- includes PythonPoint - PDF Presentation Tool
-If pil (Python Imaging library) is installed (it is available from
-Slackbuilds.org too), reportlab can use it for working with bitmap
-images.
+If pil (Python Imaging library) is installed (it is also available from
+Slackbuilds.org), reportlab can use it for working with bitmap images.