[Freegis-list] [ANNOUNCE] PDFMap v1.60 is out

[Jerome Alet]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of PDFMap v1.60.

PDFMap is a GPLed Python module and command line tool which intensively
uses the ReportLab toolkit (http://www.reportlab.com) to allow people to
create high quality maps in the PDF format.

Objects can be represented on maps using different predefined shapes in
user defined colors, or images, and are correctly scaled and oriented
according to each object's dimensions and orientation wrt the North.

Each object can be made clickable, at least in Adobe's Acrobat Reader,
allowing you to make back-links to any web enabled database.

The new version changes are :

        - Support for web based images, even for the map background.

        - Support for transparent images. possibility to force a color to
be rendered as transparent for images which don't have transparency
information.

        - Support for arbitrary page sizes. Page sizes can be specified
either in centimeters (default), inches or points.

        - Some bug fixes.

WARNING : To use v1.60 YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED ReportLab's CVS version or any
official version NEWER than 1.13 (and 1.14 is not yet out, so please go
the CVS way). Alternatively you can go to http://www.reportlab.com/ to
download the daily tarball.

You can download PDFMap or see some samples and screenshots, from :

        http://pdfmap.sourceforge.net/

A mailing list and the CVS tree are available from :

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfmap/

Commercial support is available from : contact at librelogiciel.com
(website is currently down for heavy maintainance but email works)

Comments are very welcome.

Thank you for reading.

Jerome Alet - alet at librelogiciel.com