[Freegis-list] [ANN] PDFMap 1.50 is out

[Jerome Alet]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of PDFMap v1.50.

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 :

	- PDFMap now works as a CGI script too, allowing you to use it as
          a simple map server. A default HTML form is included, adapt it
          to your own needs. 

	- Image shapes can now be downloaded from the Net at runtime :
	  just put double-quoted urls in the configuration file to use
	  this feature.

	- The complete module documentation, generated with HappyDoc, is
	  now included.

        - Margins can now be set in centimeters (default), inches, or
	  points.

	- a .bat script is now included for Windows users. It was
	  successfully tested against Win98 + ReportLab Demo 1.11

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 unice.fr