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diff --git a/libraries/reportlab/README b/libraries/reportlab/README index bc2ea13a14..6cb7da41dd 100644 --- a/libraries/reportlab/README +++ b/libraries/reportlab/README @@ -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. |