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RST2PDF(1) text processing RST2PDF(1)

rst2pdf - Convert reStructuredText documents to PDF

rst2pdf [options] [input] [-o output]

The usual way of creating PDF from reStructuredText (ReST) is by going through LaTeX. The rst2pdf utility provides an alternative by producing PDF directly using the ReportLab library.

Show this help message and exit
Config file to use. Default=~/.rst2pdf/config
Write the PDF to FILE
A comma-separated list of custom stylesheets. Default=""
A colon-separated list of folders to search for stylesheets. Default=""
Create a compressed PDF. Default=False
Print the default stylesheet and exit
Search this folder for fonts. (Deprecated)
A colon-separated list of folders to search for fonts. Default=""
The base URL for relative URLs.
Language to be used for hyphenation and docutils localization. Default=None
Page header if not specified in the document.
Page footer if not specified in the document.
Sections up to this dept will be used in the header and footer's replacement of ###Section###. Default=2
Try to convert ASCII quotes, ellipsis and dashes to the typographically correct equivalent. Default=0

The possible values are:

0.
Suppress all transformations. (Do nothing.)
1.
Performs default SmartyPants transformations: quotes (including backticks-style), em-dashes, and ellipses. "--" (dash dash) is used to signify an em-dash; there is no support for en-dashes.
2.
Same as --smart-quotes=1, except that it uses the old-school typewriter shorthand for dashes: "--" (dash dash) for en-dashes, "---" (dash dash dash) for em-dashes.
3.
Same as --smart-quotes=2, but inverts the shorthand for dashes: "--" (dash dash) for em-dashes, and "---" (dash dash dash) for en-dashes.

What to do when a literal is too wide. One of error,overflow,shrink,truncate. Default="shrink"
How to fit the background image to the page. One of scale, scale_width or center. Default="center"
Shows target between parenthesis instead of active link
Repeats header row for each splitted table
Support embeddig raw HTML. Default: False
Print less information.
Print debug information.
Print even more debug information.
Print version number and exit.
Disable footnote backlinks. Default: False
Show footnotes inline. Default: True
DPI for objects sized in pixels. Default=300
Show frame borders (only useful for debugging). Default=False
Don't use splittable flowables in some elements. Only try this if you can't process a document any other way.
Maximum section level that starts in a new page. Default: 0

on the right hand side. (Book Style)

Add a blank page at the beginning of the document.
How section breaks work. Can be "even", and sections start in an even page,"odd", and sections start in odd pages, or "any" and sections start in the next page,be it even or odd. See also the -b option.
Don't store the current date in the PDF. Useful mainly for the test suite, where we don't want the PDFs to change.
Alias for --extension-module
Add a helper extension module to this invocation of rst2pdf (module must end in .py and be on the python path)
Template file used for the cover page. Default: cover.tmpl
Makes images with :align: attribute work more like in rst2html. Default: False
When using numbered sections, adds the numbers to all links referring to the section headers. Default: False
Remove elements with this CLASS from the output. Can be used multiple times.

$ rst2pdf rest.txt -o out.pdf

Produce an out.pdf file which is a PDF version of the ReST document rest.txt.

Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk> for the Debian project