rst2pdf.py is a PDF front-end for Docutils that is compatible with the rst2*.py front ends of the Docutils suite. It enables the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText source in one step cleaning up intermediate files.
Questions tagged [rst2pdf]
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Sphinx: Use a different directive for a different output format
Assume you have a reStructuredText document and want to export it in two formats using Sphinx 2.x: HTML and PDF.
You want to put some slightly different contents in these two formats. For example, the text "I am HTML" appears in the HTML version…
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why does rst2pdf gives TemplateNotFound error when template does exisit?
I am making use of the rst2pdf library to generate a PDF document via Sphinx. However when I attempt to do this I end up with the below error:
[exec] sphinx-build -b pdf -d stage/doctrees source/welcome stage/pdf
[exec] Running Sphinx v1.8.5
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Conda rst2pdf not found although on anaconda.org
I am using anaconda as package manager and tried to install rst2pdf to be able to output a PDF using sphinx for a python program.
However I get the following readback when I try to run the published command:
conda install -c dfroger…
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"pip3 list --outdated" item is to keep remaining after "pip3 install -U"
I am using pip3 list --outdated --format=freeze for bulk update of current installed all packages.
Recently I noticed one package rst2pdf is to keep remaining after pip3 install -U.
I am experiencing this issue with MacOS High Sierra and Ubuntu…
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Why the substitution |version| is not working on Sphinx
I'm new using Sphinx to document my work. I want do add the number version and release to my documentation in PDF.
In the conf.py file, a version variable is defined that we can use in the .rst files like such:
|version|
But its not working for me,…
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How to configure epstopdf for the Sphinx plantuml extension?
I'm trying to get Sphinx on Windows to generate a PDF with the rst2pdf plugin. My reStructuredText files make use of the PlantUML Sphinx extension.
When generating a PDF, I get the message
SphinxWarning: WARNING: epstopdf command 'epstopdf' cannot…
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rst2pdf : Generate pdf with formulas
I need to generate a report with formulas. I found the library rst2pdf. I like to work with the library, but there was a problem when generating pdf with formulas. To generate a formula I use math role. The following code does not work. The error…
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Calling rst2pdf through subprocess in Django app truncates file
I'm using rst2pdf to generate a formatted pdf file in my Django app. This is the code I'm using to do this:
temp_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+t', dir=PDF_PATH, delete=False)
temp_pdf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=PDF_PATH,…
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highlight lines of code
Does rst2pdf supports line highlighting in source code? Like this:
.. code-block:: c
:include: example.c
:emphasize-lines: 12,15-18
There is default style named pygments-hll that should be used but don't know how.
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rst2pdf header / footer text color
How can I change the header / footer text color in the style sheet?
I tried, fruitlessly:
footer: {
parent: normal,
alignment: TA_CENTER,
textColor: red
},
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How to enforce line wrapping in code-block in rst2pdf?
I have some generated reStructuredText that has code blocks with long lines. Is there a way to enforce line breaks just like normal lines (not in blocks) are wrapped?
Here's an example where rst2pdf reduces the font size of the block to make the…
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Rst2pdf: Sphinx - Confused file format for defining custom styles
I am confused with multiple resources saying to define custom PDF styles in different ways. What is its file format (.styles or .json)?
Here is my current folder structure:
/home/sachin/Workspace/Sootballs/pa-amr/docs/.rst2pdf/config/rst2pdf.conf
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Adding header and footer to PDF generated using rst2pdf and spinx
I have inherited a user guide that is built using reStructuredText and Sphinx, from which we want to (and can) produce a PDF using rst2pdf integration with Sphinx. The one thing that we'd like to do is apply custom headers and footers to each page…
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How to have multi-page table row cells converted properly using rst2pdf Shpinx?
I have a table of which one-row cell has so much data that it could span multiple pages in the finally-generated PDF file. rst2pdf ungracefully fails when I feed it my file, with the following output:
[ERROR] pdfbuilder.py:161 Failed to build…
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Include multiple images at once using rst2pdf
I'm using rst2pdf to collect several images (named A1.png, A2.png, ... etc) from images folder into one pdf file.
to include one image I write the following in file.txt
.. image:: images/A1.png
then run the following in Linux terminal to convert…
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