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.
-h, --help
Show this help message and exit
--config=FILE
Config file to use. Default=~/.rst2pdf/config
-oFILE,--output=FILE
Write the PDF to FILE
-sSTYLESHEETS,--stylesheets=STYLESHEETS
A comma-separated list of custom stylesheets. Default=""
--stylesheet-path=FOLDERLIST
A colon-separated list of folders to search for stylesheets. Default=""
-c, --compressed
Create a compressed PDF. Default=False
--print-stylesheet
Print the default stylesheet and exit
--font-folder=FOLDER
Search this folder for fonts. (Deprecated)
--font-path=FOLDERLIST
A colon-separated list of folders to search for fonts. Default=""
--baseurl=URL
The base URL for relative URLs.
-lLANG,--language=LANG
Language to be used for hyphenation and docutils localization. Default=None
--header=HEADER
Page header if not specified in the document.
--footer=FOOTER
Page footer if not specified in the document.
--section-header-depth=N
Sections up to this dept will be used in the header and footer's replacement of ###Section###. Default=2
--smart-quotes=VALUE
Try to convert ASCII quotes, ellipsis and dashes to the typographically correct equivalent. Default=0
The possible values are:
Suppress all transformations. (Do nothing.)
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.
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.
Same as --smart-quotes=2, but inverts the shorthand for dashes: "--" (dash dash) for em-dashes, and "---" (dash dash dash) for en-dashes.
--fit-literal-mode=MODE
What to do when a literal is too wide. One of error,overflow,shrink,truncate. Default="shrink"
--fit-background-mode=MODE
How to fit the background image to the page. One of scale or center. Default="center"
--inline-links
Shows target between parenthesis instead of active link
--repeat-table-rows
Repeats header row for each splitted table
--raw-html
Support embeddig raw HTML. Default: False
-q, --quiet
Print less information.
-v, --verbose
Print debug information.
--very-verbose
Print even more debug information.
--version
Print version number and exit.
--no-footnote-backlinks
Disable footnote backlinks. Default: False
--inline-footnotes
Show footnotes inline. Default: True
--default-dpi=NUMBER
DPI for objects sized in pixels. Default=300
--show-frame-boundary
Show frame borders (only useful for debugging). Default=False
--disable-splittables
Don't use splittable flowables in some elements. Only try this if you can't process a document any other way.
-bLEVEL,--break-level=LEVEL
Maximum section level that starts in a new page. Default: 0
--first-page-on-right When using double sided pages, the first page will start
on the right hand side. (Book Style)
--blank-first-page
Add a blank page at the beginning of the document.
--break-side=VALUE
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.
--date-invariant
Don't store the current date in the PDF. Useful mainly for the test suite, where we don't want the PDFs to change.
-eEXTENSIONS
Alias for --extension-module
--extension-module=EXTENSIONS
Add a helper extension module to this invocation of rst2pdf (module must end in .py and be on the python path)
--custom-cover=FILE
Template file used for the cover page. Default: cover.tmpl
--use-floating-images
Makes images with :aling: attribute work more like in rst2html. Default: False
--use-numbered-links
When using numbered sections, adds the numbers to all links referring to the section headers. Default: False
--strip-elements-with-class=CLASS
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 <[email protected]> for the Debian project