Release Notes

Versions >= 0.2

0.2.21

Released: 2026-09-26

🎉 New

  • Rounded corners. border-radius and its four longhands, with one to four values, the / form for elliptical corners, lengths and percentages of the box. Blocks, flex containers and items, inline blocks, inline boxes, images, tables and table cells are rounded: the background and its image are clipped to the curve, and the border follows it, a thick side tapering into a thin one through the corner as in a browser. A block split between pages is rounded at both ends of each part; a flex box, an inline box or a table cut by a line or page break is square at the cut. A background-color with a radius on a <span> is drawn as one rounded box, which is how a pill badge is written. See the Rounded corners section of the HTML reference for what differs from a browser.

  • Selectors Level 4. :not() with a list of selectors, :is(), :where(), :has() (p:has(> img), h2:has(+ p)), and :nth-child(2 of .x) / :nth-last-child() with of. Before, the argument of each was read as a value and the whole rule was dropped without a word. Also [type=text i] and s, :lang(), :dir(), :scope, :link and :any-link, and the form states :checked, :default, :disabled, :enabled, :required, :optional, :read-only, :read-write and :placeholder-shown, all read from the document as written. dir="auto" matches neither :dir(ltr) nor :dir(rtl). The form states only select: a disabled or readonly field is still editable in the PDF. As in a browser, [type=text] selects type="TEXT": HTML’s type, lang, dir, rel and the other attributes it lists compare ignoring case on HTML elements, unless the selector says s.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • dir="auto" is no longer reported as a wrong value of dir; the element keeps the direction it inherits.

  • Pseudo-class specificity. A pseudo-class counted as a type rather than a class, so div p:first-child lost to .x p.

  • A space before the ] of an attribute selector, [type=text ], no longer drops the rule.

  • A stray ``}`` no longer hangs the parser. Since 0.2.18 a } with no open block at the top of a stylesheet – one that closes a rule twice, as the stylesheet svc.webspellchecker.net serves does – made pisa.CreatePDF loop forever: the malformed-rule skip hands a leading } back for an enclosing block to close, and at top level nothing consumed it. The } now joins the next rule’s prelude and that rule is dropped with its whole block, as CSS Syntax 3 specifies. The block of an at-rule the parser does not support (@keyframes, @supports) is skipped to its matching } rather than parsed as a stylesheet, which read that } as a stray one and hung the same way. A } inside a quoted string, as in content: "}", does not end that block.

  • An at-rule the parser does not support and that has no block, such as @layer base;, is skipped instead of raising a TypeError that aborted the whole document.

  • Invalid CSS is dropped, not fatal. As CSS Syntax 3 says, what the parser cannot read is now skipped and the rest of the stylesheet applies: an at-rule up to its ; or through its block, a declaration up to its ;. Until now only a malformed selector was recovered from; anything else raised out of pisa.CreatePDF and the document was lost. That covered a malformed @import, @namespace or @charset, @media or @page with no block, an at-rule the parser skips (@keyframes) inside @media or @page, and a broken inline style, such as width: calc(1px. An invalid declaration – !ie, the *font hack, color: red;; – used to take the whole rule with it; now only the declaration goes. The end of a stylesheet closes any block still open, so p { color: red applies.

  • ``unicode-range`` no longer aborts the document. It raised an IndexError – and every @font-face Google Fonts serves has one.

  • Attribute selectors. [attr^=v], [attr$=v] and [attr*=v] work; ^= used to raise out of the document. [lang|=GB] no longer matches lang="en-GB": |= is a prefix up to a -. And elements that differ only in an attribute a rule selects by, such as a <p title="a"> next to a <p title="b">, are styled each on its own: the style cache ignored attributes and gave the second one the first one’s style.

  • Text past Latin-1 in CSS strings. font-family: "宋体" was not read as a string at all, '宋体' kept its quotes in the font name, and content: "a宋" lost its rule.

  • ``inherit`` works. It was ignored on every property: the parent’s value was found and then an error raised anyway. border-radius accepts it too.

  • Sibling selectors. h1 + p coloured every paragraph after the heading, and h1 ~ p and p + p none: siblings shared the style cache’s entry, as with attributes above.

  • An @import after another rule is ignored, as CSS 2.1 requires, and a selector with a namespace prefix no @namespace declared drops its rule. |p selects only elements in no namespace; it matched any.

  • Paragraphs are as tall as they are drawn. With a font whose ascent and descent pass 1.2em – Noto Sans, Nunito Sans, Roboto – and a line-height over 1.2, a paragraph was measured about a point per line shorter than it was drawn: the next block ran over its last lines, and a paragraph split at a page break ran past the bottom margin. Lines holding an inline block did the same. Measuring now uses the drawing’s own formula, so text that overlapped moves down to where it belongs.

  • An inline box nested in another is no longer covered by the outer one’s background, which used to be painted last.

⚠️ Deprecation

  • CSSParser.parse() and parseInline() no longer raise CSSParseError on invalid CSS: what cannot be read is skipped and logged as a warning. CSSParseError lost setFullCSSSource() and its fullsrc, inline, srcFullIdx and ctxsrcFullIdx attributes, which held the whole stylesheet.

  • The attribute operators &=, != and <>, which no CSS specification defines, drop their rule.

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
Chaitu5210, whose rounded-corners branch was the starting point, and rafalbielicki-netizen, who found and fixed the stray } hang.

0.2.20

Released: 2026-09-15

🎉 New

  • CSS flexbox. display: flex lays the element’s children out in a row or a column, following CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1: flex-direction, flex-wrap, flex-flow, justify-content, align-items, align-self, align-content, gap/row-gap/ column-gap, flex-grow, flex-shrink, flex-basis, flex, order, min-/max-width/height on the items and margin: auto. Before this display: flex fell through to inline and the children ran into their parent’s text. See the Flexbox section of the HTML reference for what is and is not supported.

  • ``display: inline-block``. A box inside the line of text, with its own width, height, padding, border and background, placed by vertical-align like an inline image. Form controls – <input>, <select>, <textarea> – are inline blocks by default and sit in the line instead of each closing the paragraph it was in.

  • Inline boxes. An inline element with padding, a border, a background-image or side margins is drawn as a box around its text, in the line: the padding widens the line, the box is painted under the words, and one cut by a line break or a page break goes on from the next line without an edge at the cut. Before this, padding and borders on a <span> were ignored.

  • Flex containers break across pages. A container that does not fit the room left on a page is cut where the page ends, through its line and its items, the way a browser fragments it: each item goes on at the top of the next page without an edge at the cut, an item whose content cannot break there moves whole, and a line with nothing to show above the cut moves whole.

  • A ``font-family`` list is matched per character, as CSS says it is. The first family that existed used to draw everything, so a document naming a Latin face first lost every character that face had no glyph for: ěščřžýáíéí came out ■š■■žýáíéí, the boxes being exactly the letters Helvetica lacks. font-family: Helvetica, MySans now reaches MySans for those and leaves the rest where it was, and font-family: "Noto Sans Devanagari", "Noto Sans" gives a Devanagari subset font the Latin it does not carry. A character no family on the list has is reported, by character and by the fonts tried.

  • Right-to-left documents. A direction declared with dir="rtl" or with <pdf:language name="arabic"/> now turns the document round rather than only reshaping its text: paragraphs are aligned to the right unless text-align says otherwise, and a table’s columns run from the right, so the first <td> of a row is its rightmost cell. Hebrew or Arabic inside an otherwise left-to-right paragraph is reordered too – the bidirectional algorithm used to run only on documents that declared a direction, so a Hebrew word in an English sentence read backwards.

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Every value of display now means something: table, list-item, flow-root, grid and the table-* values are laid out as block (before, only block and none were looked at, so display: table on a <div> did not even make it a block), and a value this library does not know is reported once rather than silently treated as inline.

  • The flex, flex-flow and gap shorthands are expanded, and a flexbox value this library does not support (align-items: last baseline is drawn as flex-end) is reported once, by value.

  • align-items: baseline and align-self: baseline line flex items up on the first baseline of their text, the way a browser does; an item with no text is aligned by its bottom edge. An inline block with vertical-align: baseline sits on the baseline of its last line of text rather than on its bottom edge.

  • CSS’s generic font families are answered deliberately rather than by accident. Only sans and sansserif were listed, so sans-serif – the commonest font-family there is – matched nothing and arrived at Helvetica through the fallback. cursive, fantasy, system-ui, math and the ui-* families are answered too, each with the nearest base-14 face.

  • Choosing a font no longer fails in silence. A font-family that names nothing the document knows, a @font-face whose src could not be read, a CJK name ReportLab does not have, and a second @font-face reusing a family name already embedded in the process from another file each now say so, naming the family and what was used instead. All four used to end in Helvetica with nothing in the log, which made a missing font indistinguishable from a missing glyph.

  • Arabic letters are no longer replaced by empty boxes when the font has no presentation form for them. Joining is done by substituting those forms, and a font built for OpenType shaping carries few or none; ligatures are dropped first and the letters left unjoined second.

  • A font, image or stylesheet that already is a local file is read where it lies. It used to be copied through a temporary file first – read whole, written out, and read again – although the resource policy had already vetted the path.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • On Windows, a document with any @font-face could not be converted: ReportLab’s open of the font raised PermissionError/TTFError. xhtml2pdf wrote the font to a NamedTemporaryFile, kept the handle open and handed ReportLab the name, and on Windows that handle is an exclusive share, so the second open could not succeed. A name handed out for another library to open now belongs to a closed file, removed at the end of the render instead of on close. The same applies to the canvas a watermark is drawn on.

  • An inline box – a <span> with padding, a border or a background – a display: inline-block, or any form control, which is an inline block by default, stopped the conversion with OSError: Cannot open resource ...afm, while looking for faceName=... in any document whose font came from @font-face. The frag that carries the box holds no text, so it never passed through the step that turns a family name into the concrete face registered for it, and an embedded TTF is registered as <family>_00. A base-14 family happened to survive because it is registered under its own name.

  • A family named with the documented # prefix – the way to embed several TTFs that share one internal face name – was registered with the # stripped and looked up with it kept, so it was never found and the text was drawn in Helvetica.

  • A source given as bytes ignored the encoding argument. Only a str source carried the caller’s encoding through to the HTML parser; bytes fell through to the parser’s own sniffing, whose last resort is windows-1252, so UTF-8 bytes came out as mojibake – a bullet as • – however plainly encoding="utf-8" had been passed. Naming no encoding still leaves the document’s own <meta charset> to decide.

  • The writing direction had no end. dir="rtl" on a <div> or a <p>, or a <pdf:language> naming a right-to-left language, was one value for the whole file, set by whichever element declared it last and never put back – so a single right-to-left paragraph left every table after it with its columns reversed and every paragraph right-aligned with its full stop moved to the front. It is bounded by the element that declares it now, and <pdf:language name=""/> ends it where it says it does.

  • dir="rtl" reversed each fragment with str[::-1] and its words twice over, on top of the bidirectional algorithm that had already run, so the Latin words of a right-to-left document came out backwards – “and Latin text” as “dna nitaL txet”. A right-to-left line is laid out by aligning it to the right, not by turning its words around.

  • A document that declared both dir="rtl" and <pdf:language> had its text put through the reshaper twice, once per fragment and once more over the whole paragraph, which could leave a NUL in the middle of it.

  • dir on the <html> element was ignored. It was read on <body>, <div> and <p>, but the root element is where a document usually declares its direction.

  • <pdf:language name="Arabic"/> did nothing when it was not spelled in lower case: it reshaped no text, and was excluded from /Lang for being a language name, so it did neither job.

  • width and height were handed down from a block to everything inside it, because the frag a child starts from is a clone of its parent’s and neither was ever put back. CSS inherits neither, and in a flex container it was doing real damage: every item took the container’s own width and height as its own, which made the item’s cross size definite and stopped align-items: stretch from ever sizing an item to its line.

  • A flex container with a declared height that was cut between pages gave both parts the whole height, so the first part no longer fit the room it was cut for. The height is now shared: the first part takes what it shows, the second the rest.

  • A percentage row-gap was resolved against the container’s width. css-align 8.3 resolves a gap against the container’s own content box in that gap’s axis, so a percentage row-gap goes against the height, and counts as zero when the height is indefinite – which, for a container that takes its content’s height, it usually is.

  • vertical-align: top and bottom were drawn as text-top and text-bottom. CSS 2.1 10.8.1 aligns the first pair with the edges of the whole line box and the second with the parent’s content area, so the four only coincide when nothing else on the line is taller. The line box is known once the line has been assembled, which is where the two are now told apart. This reaches inline images too, and an <img> with no align is aligned bottom, so an image sharing a line with something taller than itself now sits at the line’s bottom edge rather than a fifth of the font size below the baseline.

  • An inline image measured more than once came out smaller each time: the paragraph scaled the size it found instead of the image’s natural size, so -pdf-keep-in-frame-mode: shrink – which measures its content repeatedly – shrank every image twice. Images inside a shrunk frame are now the size the frame’s scale gives them.

📘 Documentation

  • HTML API documents flexbox and inline blocks: which properties are read, and where the layout differs from a browser’s on purpose – inline-flex as block-level flex, align-content needing a length height, a column without one never wrapping, and how a container is fragmented at a page edge.

  • Working with fonts is rewritten around what font matching now does: a font-family list resolved per character, what happens when no family on it has the character, and the fact that a family the document embeds beats a built-in alias of the same name – the guide said the opposite. Its right-to-left section says what declaring a direction actually turns round, and how far the Arabic joining goes.

0.2.19

Released: 2026-09-12

This is primarily a security release. Read Security before upgrading if you convert HTML that anyone but you wrote: the defaults changed, and an application that resolves its assets through link_callback will have to say where they live.

🔐 Security

  • A rendered document can no longer reach internal network addresses. <img src="http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/"> returned cloud instance credentials from inside the VPC. Loopback, private, link-local, multicast and reserved addresses are refused by default, on every hop of a redirect chain, and a host is judged by the address it resolves to.

  • A rendered document can no longer read arbitrary files. <img src="/etc/passwd"> worked; local reads are now confined to the document’s own directory, symlinks and .. included.

  • The PDF viewer is no longer started through a shell. A destination whose name contained shell metacharacters was executed rather than opened (CWE-78). startViewer is public API and reachable from the -d argument of the command line tool.

    Public HTTP(S) is unaffected by any of this, and a refused resource is logged rather than fatal. Callers choose their own policy with the resource_policy argument of pisaDocument, with use_policy around a build, or on the command line with --resource-root, --allow-host, --allow-private-networks, --no-remote and --unsafe-resources. See Security.

  • A stylesheet can no longer hold a worker with a handful of characters. The CSS string and escape patterns each gave the regular expression engine two ways to match the same character, so a string nobody closed backtracked catastrophically: <style>a{content:" followed by 40 backslashes cost three minutes of CPU, and every further four characters multiplied that by eight.

  • The same for a colour written as an HTML attribute. <td bgcolor="rgb( and 90 digits cost 23 seconds per attribute; the pattern’s three unanchored .*? are gone, and it is matched once rather than twice. A channel above 255 is now clamped, as it already was for a colour the parser hands over as a function.

  • A conversion that fails no longer leaks a file descriptor. Temporary files were closed at the end of the build, where an exception skipped it, so every document that failed to convert left a descriptor and a deleted-but-open inode behind for the life of the thread.

  • A fetched resource now has a size limit, 20 MiB by default and max_resource_bytes on the policy. A rendered document names the server it downloads from, and nothing looked at what came back: a 203 KB response declaring Content-Encoding: gzip expanded to 209 MB of resident memory, and twenty <img> like it took the worker. The limit is checked against the declared Content-Length, against the body as it is read, and again against what a gzipped body expands to.

  • A policy built by hand no longer opens the filesystem. ResourceAccessPolicy’s base_dir defaulted to None and None meant no confinement, so ResourceAccessPolicy(allowed_hosts=...) – tightening the network rules – silently allowed a document to read any file the process could. base_dir now defaults to the working directory, as default_policy() always did, and base_dir=None denies local reads rather than allowing all of them. allow_local_outside_base=True is how the confinement is lifted, and PERMISSIVE_POLICY and the command line are unchanged.

🎉 New

  • The document’s language is written to the PDF catalog as /Lang, from <html lang="es-CR"> or <pdf:language name="fr"/>. Screen readers and PDF/UA read the document language from there, and xhtml2pdf never declared it.

  • A table of contents can fill the gap between an entry and its page number. -pdf-toc-leader takes none (the default), space, dots, dashes, line, or any other string to repeat; <pdf:toc leader="dots" /> sets it for the whole table and a .pdftoclevelN rule for one level. See HTML API.

  • A document can have more than one table of contents. <pdf:toc name="figures" /> takes only the entries that name it with -pdf-toc-name: figures, so a list of figures or of tables can sit beside the general contents, each with its own fill and typography. An entry belongs to exactly one of them. A second <pdf:toc> used to fail the whole render. See HTML API.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • A table of contents with no entries printed ReportLab’s internal Placeholder for table of contents into the finished document.

  • --start-viewer works on Linux. It ran the macOS open everywhere that was not Windows, so it had never done anything there.

  • A list item whose content is wrapped in a block keeps its marker. <li><p>text</p></li>, which is what rich-text editors emit, lost its bullet or number, and so did every other shape a block inside an item can take: two blocks in one item, an item followed by a nested list, and an item wrapping its text in anything other than <p> or <div>. A wrapped item still hangs under its first line, and <li>text<p>block</p></li> now puts the block on its own line as a browser does.

  • getSize no longer warns Not a float '100%' for a perfectly valid percentage. The value it returned was already correct.

  • A table of contents lays its page numbers out flush right, links each one to the heading it names, and indents each level. The numbers used to stop an inch short of the margin, and a long entry ran into its own page number.

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Resolving CSS no longer scans every rule for every property. Dressing an element cost O(elements x properties x rules), which was 30-48% of a render and grew with the size of the stylesheet. Rules are now filed under the condition an element has to meet, the whole cascade is resolved in one walk per element, and the warning that ran on every attribute lookup moved behind XHTML2PDF_CHECK_CSS_PROPERTIES. A document of 800 elements against 800 rules went from 3649 to 392 ms; test-loremipsum from 408 to 224 ms. What comes out is unchanged.

  • An embedded font is parsed once per process rather than once per document. Building a ReportLab TTFont reads and parses the whole file – 7 ms for a Latin face, 70 ms for a CJK one, once per declared weight – and ReportLab discarded the result when the name was already registered, so from the second document onwards the work was thrown away on arrival. Across a gallery of 40 real documents rendered in one process, time inside TTFont went from 3.23s to 0s. A process that converts a single file still parses each font once, because it has to.

  • use_policy around a build is honoured, so a renderer with several entry points can set a resource policy once instead of passing it to every call. The order is the resource_policy argument, then the surrounding block, then the default.

  • <pdf:toc class="..."> keeps its own classes, so the tag can be styled with pdftoc.compact.pdftoclevel0. The level classes no longer leak into the rest of the document either.

  • The vendored copy of ReportLab’s paragraph renderer understands <onDraw> again.

📘 Documentation

  • New Security page: what to think about when the markup is not yours, the policy options, and how to report a vulnerability.

  • The Django example in Advanced usage shows the policy that names STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT. Without it that example loses every image.

  • The Python reference documents resource_policy; the CLI reference documents the five resource flags.

  • HTML API documents the document language – what <html lang> and <pdf:language> each do, and which of the two reaches /Lang. Security documents the two ready-made policies, default_policy() and PERMISSIVE_POLICY, and what a refused resource does to a render.

  • make devsetup builds the development environment in one step: a virtualenv, an editable install with the test, docs and release extras, and the pre-commit hooks. The README told contributors to ask for a build extra, which does not exist; the one that brings in build and twine is release.

🧹 Cleanup

  • pisaContext.cssAttr is declared in __init__ rather than appearing from the first CSSCollect.

0.2.18

🎉 New

  • Support for ReportLab 5. The dependency is now reportlab>=4.0.4,<6; both major versions are covered by the CI matrix.

  • Support for Python 3.14. The CI matrix now covers every supported CPython release (3.10 to 3.14) against both ReportLab majors.

💪🏼 Improvements

  • PmlImageReader falls back to xhtml2pdf’s own fetcher when ReportLab refuses a resource. ReportLab 5 changed rl_config.trustedHosts=None from “every host is trusted” to “no host is trusted”, so open_for_read now rejects every URL and data: URI by default. That default is deliberate SSRF hardening and is left untouched.

  • data: URIs are parsed per RFC 2397. The percent-encoded form (data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg...), which is the usual way inline SVG is written, was previously rejected outright; only ;base64, was understood.

  • HTTP responses now follow redirects (bounded to 5 hops), accept any 2xx status rather than the literal 200 OK reason phrase, close their connection, and log a warning instead of a debug message on failure.

  • Plain HTTP requests honour the configured http_timeout; it was previously only applied to HTTPS connections, so plain HTTP could hang indefinitely.

  • The memoization cache in xhtml2pdf.util is bounded (1000 entries, FIFO) and is cleared at the end of each render. Its keys come from CSS in the rendered document, so it grew without limit in long-running servers.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • @page name:left / @page name:right work. A stray sys.exit() in PmlBaseDoc.handle_nextPageTemplate terminated the calling process, and the vendored PTCycle predated ReportLab’s next_value protocol, so the alternating left/right page feature had never worked. ReportLab’s own PTCycle is used now.

  • Temporary files are no longer shared between threads. TmpFiles subclasses threading.local but declared files as a class attribute, so one request’s cleanFiles() closed files another request was still reading.

  • pisaPDF.addFromString() works. It passed an unsupported capacity keyword to getFile() and appended raw bytes where PdfReader needs a file-like object.

  • pisaFileObject accepts bytes and pathlib.Path, as its type hints always claimed. Both raised AttributeError, which was swallowed into a silent None.

  • The WSGI middleware produces PDFs. PisaMiddleware.filter wrote PDF bytes into a StringIO, and the response buffer rejected the bytes chunks that PEP 3333 requires applications to yield.

  • Filter.should_filter is abstract instead of printing headers to stdout and returning None.

  • Paragraph.getPlainText() works; a misplaced bracket made it join a sequence of one-element lists and raise TypeError on every call.

  • pisaTempFile(capacity=-1) keeps its buffer in memory, as documented. len(buffer) > capacity is true for any buffer when capacity is negative, so it selected the on-disk strategy immediately – the opposite of the intended behaviour, and the default for pisaPDF and pisaContext.

  • Temporary files are registered with the cleanup registry even when the resource is empty. Registration sat inside an if data:, so those files were never closed by cleanFiles() and survived until garbage collection (surfaced by the new ResourceWarning in Python 3.14).

  • pisaTempFile.getFileName() returns the file name instead of None; name was never assigned when the on-disk strategy kicked in.

  • The background of <body> now covers the whole page, as CSS 2.1 14.2 requires when html declares no background of its own. It previously painted only the area body’s boxes occupied, leaving the rest of the page white. Found by the new browser comparison; see below.

⚠️ Deprecation

  • Python 3.8 and 3.9 are no longer supported; the minimum is now Python 3.10.

  • The renderpm extra is deprecated and now an alias for pycairo. ReportLab 5 removed the C renderPM backend together with its renderpm extra, so reportlab[renderpm] silently installed nothing there. The pure-Python rlPyCairo backend that pycairo installs is what reportlab.graphics.renderPM uses now.

🧹 Cleanup

  • The test suite no longer reaches the public internet; fixtures are served from a local HTTP server. A dedicated CI job runs the suite with no outbound network at all.

  • The rendering comparison in CI is load-bearing. References used to be regenerated from the same commit and ReportLab version immediately before being compared, and --nofail suppressed the exit code, so the pixel diff could never fail. A cross-version job now builds references with one ReportLab major and renders with the other, in both directions. A missing reference counts as a difference instead of being silently skipped.

  • The tox envlist matches the CI matrix again; TOXENV=py3.13 previously matched no environment, so that leg ran no tests. CI asserts the match.

  • make test-render fails with a clear message when the reference set has not been generated yet, instead of reporting every page as a difference. New make test-render-all target creates the reference and compares in one go.

  • CI patches whichever /etc/ImageMagick-*/policy.xml exists rather than hardcoding the ImageMagick 6 path.

  • New testrender/browsercompare.py compares xhtml2pdf’s output against a browser rendering equivalent markup, which is the project’s first external reference: testrender.py compares xhtml2pdf against itself and so cannot say whether the output is correct. Every fixture has a plain HTML/CSS equivalent under testrender/data/browser/ in which the xhtml2pdf-only constructs are expressed with ordinary markup – @frame as absolute positioning, <pdf:toc> as a hand-written list, <pdf:pagenumber> as a counter() in an @page margin box. Run it with make test-browser.

  • New tests for previously uncovered modules: pdf.py, wsgi.py, the pisa CLI, files.py, and reportlab_paragraph.py. A contract test pins every private ReportLab symbol the package imports.

  • Removed the dead tests/runtests.py harness.

0.2.17

Released: 2025-02-23

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Reuse background PDF file over multiple pages

  • Improve github actions

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • fix reDOS CVE in getColor function

  • Keep GitHub Actions up to date with GitHub’s Dependabot

📘 Documentation

  • Improve documentation and fixed a lot of typos

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
Trupal00p cclauss and kytta-532-better-docs

0.2.16

Released: 2024-06-08

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Add compatibility for reportlab >= 4.1 (#751)

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
stefan6419846

0.2.15

Released: 2024-02-08

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Pin reportlab>=4.0.4,<4.1 (#751)

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
timobrembeck

0.2.14

Released: 2024-01-20

⚠️ Important notes

The pyCairo dependency has been removed to allow the user to define the desired rendering backend individually. If you need to render bitmaps or vector graphic formats, please specify either pycairo or renderpm as extra dependency.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Remove unintentional packages from wheel (#736)

  • Make pyCairo dependency optional (#741)

  • Fix image rendering with link_callback (#738)

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
carlsmedstad, timobrembeck

0.2.13

Released: 2023-11-09

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fix TypeError on column widths specified as percentages (#731)

  • Fix TypeError when formatting width in debug logging (#730)

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
JanEgner, timobrembeck

0.2.12

Released: 2023-11-08

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fix page number & page count (#106) (#695)

  • Fix ZeroDivisionError on broken image files (#723)

📘 Documentation

  • Update README (#707)

  • Modernize Sphinx configuration (#711)

🧹 Cleanup

  • Change print statement to log.exception (#700)

  • Remove Python2 compatibility (#706)

  • Depend on html5lib >= 1.1 (#705) (#709)

  • Depend on reportlab >= 4.0.4 (#699) (#708)

  • Use black code style (#714)

  • Enforce consistent file formatting (#715)

  • Add ruff code linter (#716)

  • Start using type hints & validate them via mypy (#717)

  • Drop support for Python 3.7 (reached end of life on 2023-06-27) (#718)

  • Add support for Python 3.12 (released on 2023-10-02) (#719)

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
JanEgner, lucasgadams, a-detiste, holtwick, stefan6419846, timobrembeck

0.2.11

Released: 2023-06-07

This release only aims to fix issues with pycairo and xhtml2pdf dependencies with reportlab.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fix setup.py and requirements dependency to set reportlab>=3.5.53,<4 #688 in #690

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
gaurab-10, jorenham

0.2.10

Released: 2023-04-20

🐛 Bug-Fixes

🧹 Cleanup

  • Remove duplicate pypdf entry from setup.py in #619

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
brandonlake-semaphore, sunpoet

0.2.9

Released: 2023-01-30

Important notes

  • Text RTL has new implementation but I am not sure if works as required, more works need so use it, for text and let me know if it’s works.

🎉 New

  • OL tag allow start counter

  • Div, P, And Body allows dir attribute (rtl and ltr) to provide text direction

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Page counter and Page number are now available as simple text inside paragraphs

  • New regex for strip up to curly bracket

  • Change pyPDF3 to pypdf.

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
BergLucas, matllubos, timobrembeck, MartinThoma, charludo, jorenham

0.2.8

Released: 2022-06-16

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fix background-image issues with #614 and pull requests with #619

  • Fix CSSParseError for minified @font-face definitions #609

  • Fixed a few typos and grammar mistakes in usage.rst documentation. #610

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
MuhammedNihad, timobrembeck, flash716

0.2.7

Released: 2022-03-31

🎉 New

  • Add encryption and password protection

  • New WaterMark management system with new options

  • Add Graphic builder

  • Add signing pdfs (simple and pades)

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Remove import cycle between utils and default

  • Fixed link_callback construction of path

  • Fixed path when is relative to current path

⚠️ Deprecation

  • xhtml in pisa.CreatePDF support will removed on next release

  • XML2PDF and XHTML2PDF will be removed on next release use HTML2PDF instead

📘 Documentation

  • Add render pdf on documentation and add some html example.

  • Include graphics examples

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
marcelagz for graphics support :)

0.2.6

Released: 2022-03-11

🎉 New

  • Set timeout in https options

  • Add new file manager approach using factory method, now new classes deal with different types of data B64InlineURI, LocalProtocolURI, NetworkFileUri, LocalFileURI, BytesFileUri

  • rtl languages reversed lines added as a ParaFrag (note: not fully supported yet)

  • Check if Paragraph has ‘rtl’ attribute (note: not fully supported yet)

  • Add SVG support

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Update packages dependencies

  • Now getColor return None when None is passed ignoring default value, but return default if bool(data) == false

  • Change test for github workflow using only Linux

  • Add Python 3.9, 3.10

  • Switch from PyPDF2 to PyPDF3

  • Allow call tests using make.

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fix UnboundLocalError in reportlab_paragraph (#585) (#586)

📘 Documentation

  • Created this release notes section.

  • Updated the Sphinx version and the sphinx-rtd-theme version

  • Update package information.

🧹 Cleanup

  • Drop python 2 support.

  • Remove most of python 2 code and cleanup

  • Remove six dependency and update Readme

  • Remove usage of getStringIO (#590) removed form reportlab

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
Roman914, LeonardoBein, myu20, myu20, captn3m0, audoh-tickitto, Momoumar,
timobrembeck, fbernhart,*mgodkowicz*, anze3db * and *luisza

0.2.5

Released: 2020-10-08

🎉 New

  • Added Asian fonts support (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese & Korean) #353

  • Added support for right-to-left writings like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Sindhi. Simply include for example <pdf:language name="arabic"/> #494

💪🏼 Improvements

  • CSS property letter-spacing now supports float values and relative & absolute units like cm, in, em, % etc. #490

  • Added unit tests for Asian and right-to-left fonts. #520

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • @frame properties like width, right, bottom etc. are now correctly calculated depending on the page orientation and size #499

  • Fixed support for multiple fonts and unicode #492

  • Fixed an encoding issue with html5lib #468

  • Fixed a problem with the border property in h1 to h6 heading tags #466 #495

  • Fixed compatibility with ReportLab 3.5.X #404 #463

  • Removed default background-image when no background-image is defined #484

  • Fixed an issue with different font type that have the same name #381

  • Fixed a bug that prevented support for Python 3.X #513

  • testrender test: fixed transparences and included new reference files, (now all tests pass in Travis CI without –failed parameter) #502

  • 0.0 as value for a CSS property now acts the same way as 0 and None #516

⚠️ Deprecation

  • Removed i and inch as unofficial synonyms for the in unit #516

📘 Documentation

  • Added new section about Asian font support #505 #520

  • Added new section about support for right-to-left writings #520

  • Readme.rst file was updated #507 #512

  • Added missing changelog entries for earlier releases #478

🧹 Cleanup

  • Replaced deprecated base64.encodestring with base64.encodebytes #472

  • Replaced deprecated log.warn() with log.warning() #509

  • Dropped dependency of nose (outdated & unmaintained) in favor of unittest, which is included in the Python standard library #520

  • Removed the old nose tests and replaced them with unittest #520

  • Removed unlicensed .tff font files in our tests folder and replaced them with open source fonts #520

  • Travis CI and AppVeyor are now testing both against the same ReportLab versions (3.3 to 3.5.X) #520

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
ezawadzki, fbernhart, KirilNN, luisza, Mark-Hetherington, parthjoshi2007, pedroszg, silvio-dp, sj175, tirkarthi and z4c

0.2.4

Released: 2020-01-18

🎉 New

  • Add em unit support

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Added testing for Python 3.7 and 3.8

  • Added support for urllib in Python 2 and Python 3

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fixed cgi escape util on setup version

  • Fixed width assignation on fragments

  • Repaired base64 unscaped string

  • Fixed urlparse when urls has parameters

  • Fixed i_rgbcolor support

📘 Documentation

  • Updated link_callback documentation

  • Stylized code lines in documentation

0.2.3

Released: 2018-09-14

Changes were not documented

0.2.2

Released: 2018-04-16

Changes were not documented

0.2.1

Released: 2018-02-16

🎉 New

  • Added support for Python 3.8

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Improved table tests

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Forced html5lib to 1.0.1 (old versions of html5lib are not in pip)

  • Allow for URI-escaped strings in base64 data

🧹 Cleanup

  • Removed the dependency on httplib2

0.2

Released: 2018-02-15

🎉 New

  • Support for a new @page property: background-image

💪🏼 Improvements

  • Improved Python 3 support

  • Included new httplib options

🐛 Bug-Fixes

  • Fix for transparent images in Python 3

⚠️ Deprecation

  • Removed support for Python 2.3

📘 Documentation

  • Readthedocs integration

  • Updated Django demo site

🧹 Cleanup

  • PEP8 improvements and code cleanups

  • Dropped the turbogears module

Thanks to the following people on GitHub for contributing to this release:
andreyfedoseev, browniebroke, flupzor and luisza

0.2beta1

Released: 2016-11-30

Changes were not documented

Versions >= 0.1, < 0.2

0.1beta3

Released: 2016-08-16

Changes were not documented

0.1beta2

Released: 2016-08-01

Changes were not documented

0.1beta1

Released: 2016-06-05

Changes were not documented

0.1alpha4

Released: 2016-05-18

  • Removed PyPy support

  • Avoid exceptions likely to occur systematic to how narrow a text column is #309 - thanks jkDesignDE

  • Improved tests for tables #305 - thanks taddeimania

  • Fix broken empty PDFs in Python2 #301 - thanks citizen-stig

  • Unknown page sizes now raise an exception #71 - thanks benjaoming

  • Unorderable types caused by duplicate CSS selectors / rules #69 - thanks benjaoming

  • Allow empty page definition with no space after @page - #88 - thanks benjaoming

  • Error when in addFromFile using file-like object #245 - thanks benjaoming

  • Python 3: Bad table formatting with empty columns #279 - thanks citizen-stig and benjaoming

  • Removed paragraph2.py, unused ghost file since the beginning of the project #289 - thanks citizen-stig

  • Catch-all exceptions removed in a lot of places, not quite done #290 - thanks benjaoming

0.1alpha3

Released: 2016-05-01

  • Improved six usage, simplifies codebase #288 - thanks citizen-stig

  • Removed mutable types as default args #287 - thanks citizen-stig

  • Fix “hangs forever on simple input” #209

  • Base64 inline <img> works now #281

0.1alpha2

Released: 2016-04-14

  • Fixed: AttributeError: ‘bytes’ object has no attribute ‘encode’ #265

  • Improved tests, added code coverage

0.1alpha1

Released: 2016-01-20

This major version bump signals that we have added Python 3 support. Other than that, the project remains largely unchanged.

  • Python 3 support

  • Cleaning up codebase

  • Github and documentation modernizations

Versions < 0.1

0.0.6

Released: 2014-04-27

  • get css backgrounds and fonts relative to the css file path

  • fix CSS parser breaking on “@media screen and …” (#132)

0.0.5

Released: 2013-03-25

  • Switched dependency to Pillow instead of PIL.

  • Converted the docs to rst (thanks tomscytale!)

  • Huge performance improvements (thanks Andrea Bravetti!)

  • Bugfixes.

0.0.4

Released: 2012-05-23

  • Added a <pdf:pagecount/> tag to write the total number of pages.

  • The <pdf:barcode/> tag now accepts a fontsize argument for the human-readable font.

  • Various bugfixes and enhancements

0.0.3

Released: 2011-06-19

Changes were not documented

0.0.2

Released: 2011-05-27

Changes were not documented

0.0.1

Released: 2011-05-20

Changes were not documented

0.0.0

Released: 2011-05-19

Changes were not documented

Legacy Versions

The following changelog entries were relevant before the maintainer change.

“I would like to thank the people mentioned in brackets in this change log very much for their help and support!” - Dirk

Version 3.0.33, 2010-06-16

  • NEW: Changed license to Apache License 2.0, now completely Open Source without any charging. Feel free to continue or for this project.

  • FIX: Empty cells now collapse

Version 3.0.32, 2009-05-08

  • NEW: New command line option ‘–base’ to specify base path if input comes via STDIN

  • FIX: The ‘keep in frame’ feature for tables did not work inside of static frames (Arun Shanker Prasad)

  • FIX: Small typos

Version 3.0.31, 2009-05-04

  • NEW: Support for Style “list-style-image”, also supports “zoom”

  • NEW: Temporary files internally are written to disk if they exceed a certain size

  • NEW: Font names can now also read from external URL

  • UPD: Modified pdfjoiner.py demo

  • FIX: Custom font image problem still appeared

  • FIX: Single image in a block issue

  • FIX: Randomly used wrong images is fixed using a workaround for the bug in Reportlab _digester routine

  • FIX: Empty tables error (Davide Moro)

  • FIX: Fallback to urllib2 if httpdlib fails

Version 3.0.30, 2009-03-27

  • NEW: Default CSS now hides content of <noscript>

  • UPD: Better whitespace handling in RL Paragraph

  • FIX: Fixed RL Paragraph.split to work with autoleading and images

  • FIX: Small bug fix for show_error_as_pdf

  • FIX: Demos used os.startfile which is not supported on non Windows OSes

  • FIX: Table available height threw exceptions

  • FIX: Switched from urllib2 to httplib for loading external sources

  • FIX: Correct homepage and download page in setup.py

  • FIX: Paragraphs in lists repeated the bullet

  • FIX: Tables now support -pdf-keep-with-next

  • FIX: TOC bug fixed

  • FIX: Add missing table columns to avoid error in Reportlab table

  • FIX: Fix for background images sizing

  • FIX: Empty documents now create one blank page

  • FIX: Imported fonts caused an error if used together with images

Version 3.0.29, 2008-12-01

  • NEW: Warning if Reportlab 2.2 is not installed

  • UPD: Better support for named colors

  • UPD: Modified frame handling to better support relative values

  • FIX: Splitting paragraph threw errors some times; also had problems with line breaks on the second page, fix for RL 2.2 paragraph was needed

  • FIX: Added margins to <blockquote> default CSS

  • FIX: Inline images in static frames did not work

  • FIX: Link anchors and non internal fonts caused a strange error

Version 3.0.28, 2008-11-21

  • NEW: Requires Reportlab 2.2 now!

  • NEW: Background colors for inline elements like <span>

  • NEW: Inline images and left and right aligned images implemented

  • NEW: Possibility to handle table cells that are to large via CSS option -pdf-keep-in-frame-mode

  • NEW: Option “–system” for command line tool to dump system version infos

  • NEW: CSS attribute -pdf-line-spacing for fix space between lines

  • NEW: Creation and handling of data URI with base64 encoding (others to come)

  • NEW: New general file loader that is also able to load remote data and data URI

  • NEW: PDF Joiner to concatenate many PDF and pisa documents

  • NEW: Page backgrounds can now be images or PDF

  • NEW: Visual Unittests based on ImageMagick and TortoiseIDiff (for Windows)

  • NEW: Pisa now raises exceptions if errors occurred; with pisaDocument(…, raise_exception=False) you can turn them off

  • UPD: Paragraphs now use the maximum leading to avoid overlapping text

  • UPD: Removed “Keep with next” from H1 to H6

  • FIX: Sizing of images is now handled better; should better work with PIL

  • FIX: Border handling of paragraphs optimized and fixed

  • FIX: Images that are higher than the page frame are scaled down to fit

  • FIX: Paragraphs only containing &nbsp; are rendered

  • FIX: Problem regarding the order of border style definitions

  • FIX: Single <br> between two blocks now creates a new line

  • FIX: Set table attribute “repeat” to “0”

  • FIX: Some <font> attributes did not work as expected

  • FIX: Font sizes reworked to behave like browser implementations

  • FIX: Like in most HTML browser table cells now have “valign=middle” and table headers have font weight bold

  • FIX: Little fix in CSS parsing

  • FIX: Default of <link media=””> was “screen”, changed to “all”

  • FIX: Command line tools did not install with “easy_install”

Version 3.0.27, 2008-10-04

  • INF: License changed from Qt to GPLv2

  • INF: Not yet completely compatible with Reportlab 2.2 (&nbsp; errors and borders)

  • NEW: Command line tool called “xhtml” (“pisa” still available but will be deprecated with pisa 3.1)

  • NEW: EGG for Python 2.6

  • NEW: Basic support for Data URI

  • NEW: New style -pdf-keep-with-next (does not work with pdf:toc for now)

  • UPD: Setup now exclusively works with SetupTools

Version 3.0.26, 2008-08-28

  • FIX: Python <2.5 didn’t work because of a syntax error

Version 3.0.25, 2008-08-15

  • UPD: Made imports more explicit to avoid import recursions

  • FIX: <pdf:pagenumber/> didn’t work in tables (Roman Lisagor)

  • FIX: Images without suffixes have been ignored by pisa (Henning von Bargen)

  • INF: Preparations for support of HTML FORM using INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT

Version 3.0.24, 2008-07-14

  • NEW: Support for separate borders on each side of a paragraph has been added (Robin Dunn)

  • NEW: Support for font tag (color, face, size)

  • UPD: Handling of margin and padding in paragraphs is improved (Robin Dunn)

  • UPD: Updated documentation (CreatePDF, Images)

  • FIX: A typo in margin-left has been fixed (Robin Dunn)

Version 3.0.23, 2008-06-26

  • UPD: getColor() now understands colors like rgb(255,0,0) (Darryl Dixon)

  • FIX: c.warning threw errors if no arguments where passed (Searle)

  • FIX: pisa now works with html5lib 0.11.1

Version 3.0.22, 2008-06-06

  • UPD: Updated documentation

  • UPD: Speed optimizations by removing copy.deepcopy (Darryl Dixon)

  • FIX: Small fix in CSS parser

Version 3.0.21, 2008-06-05

  • FIX: Used a parameter for html5lib that was not supported by html5lib 0.10

  • FIX: Now tested against the latest third party packages: ReportLab 2.1, html5lib 0.10, pyPdf 1.11

Version 3.0.20, 2008-06-02

  • NEW: New parameter “encoding” to explicitly set an encoding for the source data

  • UPD: Added a programming example to documentation

  • FIX: If a Unicode string is passed it will automatically be converted to UTF8

  • FIX: Fixes for Google AppEngine support

  • FIX: If possible cStringIO will be used instead of StringIO

  • FIX: An exception in psaDocument was not handled the right way because a context object was expected

Version 3.0.19, 2008-05-31

  • NEW: Support for Google AppEngine

  • NEW: Support for page break before and after [not yet tested] (Luka Frelih)

  • UPD: Reworked parts of the documentation but not yet completed

  • UPD: Optimized the command line tool “pisa”

  • FIX: TOC bugs regarding entities and additional tags inside the TOC entry definitions (Luka Frelih)

  • FIX: Default logging didn’t work with Python<2.5 (Anders J. Munch)

  • FIX: StringIO is used instead of cStringIO to avoid encoding problems like the ones we had with GoogleAppEngine

Version 3.0.18, 2008-04-19

  • WIN: Updated the windows command line version

  • NEW: WSGI support and demo

  • NEW: Added simple ASPN Cookbook example

  • UPD: Unified setup.py and setup_egg.py (Andreas Gabriel)

  • UPD: Better handling of XML and HTML parsing

  • UPD: Cleanup of Django sample

  • UPD: Cleanup of command line tool options

  • UPD: Command line tool doesn’t stop batch if error occurred any more

  • FIX: ‘style’ attribute was not evaluated!

  • FIX: If a string was passed to pisaDocument it had been converted to StringIO, which was not necessary

  • FIX: c.addPara(force=True) works again e.g. for forcing empty pages

  • FIX: Better handling of CDATA and Comments

  • FIX: Better handling of &nbsp;

  • FIX: Removed rsplit() for backward compatibility with Python 2.3

  • FIX: Handling of inconsistent HTML anchors

  • FIX: TurboGears Demo

Version 3.0.17, 2008-03-23

  • NEW: Added CSS support for TOC and updated documentation (Jean Baltus)

  • UPD: Added “render_to_pdf” to Django demo (Diego Firmenich)

  • UPD: Did some refactoring to make CSS parsing more flexible

  • UPD: Removed log.exception for warnings

  • FIX: Empty entries in TOC (Jean Baltus)

  • FIX: Use correct font for <li> now (reported by Gabor Farkas)

Version 3.0.16, 2008-03-16

  • Did some researches about support for languages like Farsi, Arabic and Asian languages. The dir=’rtl’ feature seems to be quite time intensive to be implemented, maybe I will do it in a later version or on request

  • Switched back to HTML parsing by default, but use of XHTML is recommended. Use the option “xhtml” in pisaDocument or “-x” in the command line tool

  • Added a decorator for use in Turbogears and CherryPy

  • Completely switched to Python logging system

  • Created a separate download for the fonts in the “test” directory to reduce the size of the package

  • Just use multiBuild if needed e.g. using pdf:toc

  • Bugfix: @font-face threw always a warning about font-weight

  • Bugfix: List points have to be always in “Helvetica” (Gabor Farkas)

  • Bugfix: Obligatory attributes for tag had not been handle the right way

  • Bugfix: Marked some old tag based functionalities like pdf:font, pdf:frame and pdf:template as deprecated

Version 3.0.15, 2008-03-13

  • Added new package and namespace “ho”. With pisa 3.1. we will move away form “sx”

  • Added version testing (2.1) for Reportlab Toolkit (Diego Firmenich)

  • Added new command <pdf:toc> for support of table of contents, stiling per CSS has not been implemented yet (Jean Baltus)

  • Added simple barcode support via command <pdf:barcode> (Diego Firmenich)

  • Added Python logging. Name of logger “ho.pisa” and “ho.css”. Set debugging level in command line tool by using “-d” for debugging and “-w” for warnings

  • Added complete support for CSS “font”

  • Modified the version handling and setup system for pisa distributions (had to do with the import errors that where not thrown, reported by Schmitte)

  • Updated documentation and added a CSS for HTML version

  • Bugfix: CSS “background” URL handling was broken (Luis Bruno)

  • Bugfix: CSS “border” now works more standard conform

  • Bugfix for compatibility problems with Python 2.3 because of reversed() function

  • Bugfix: No exception was thrown if a third party module was missing (Kai Schmitte)

  • Bugfix: Changed HTML5 parser from HTMLParser to XHTMLParser so that the custom tags of the “pdf” namespace are handled like expected

  • Bugfix: Switched from urllib to urllib2 because status errors (like 404) where not handled (Kees Hink)

  • A lot of smaller bugfixes and testings

Version 3.0.14, 2008-02-13

  • Added a sample for Unicode support in exotic languages like “farsi” using DejaSans font (Adam Hyde)

  • Command line tool generation integrated into setup.py (Andreas Gabriel)

  • Bugfix if no path had been set to pisaDocument()

  • Bugfix for calculating @frame dimensions

  • Bugfix: CSS comments like “//” where allowed (Andreas Gabriel)

Version 3.0.13, 2008-01-22

  • Added a demo using cherrypy web server and kid

  • Added a demo using django framework

  • Modified test-background.html to work with CSS

  • Added support for bold and italic TTF fonts to the @font-face CSS section (Robert Klep)

  • Added support for bold and italic Postscript fonts to the @font-face CSS section

  • The @-rules are not need a trailing space after ident any more (Robert Klep)

  • Fixed the Windows standalone version to work

  • Made the ‘sx’ folder more sharable by modifying __init__.py

  • Changed font-weight so that only values starting with ‘400’are considered ‘bold’ (Robert Klep)

  • Added “text-indent” style (Robert Klep)

  • Added “-pdf-keep-with-next” style to avoid page break between certain elements (Robert Klep)

  • Added “-pdf-outline”, “-pdf-outline-level” and “-pdf-outline-open” styles to create PDF bookmarks. Per default this is defined for the tags H1 to H6 (Robert Klep)

  • New option to overwrite the default CSS definitions of pisa

  • New command line options –css

  • New command line options –css-dump to get the default CSS definitions. A dump of the recent CSS default may also be found in test/default.css

  • Fixed setup.py

  • Added EGG installation file support

Version 3.0.12, 2008-01-09

  • Moved SVN repository to Holtwick

  • Modified copyright notes and links to http://www.htmltopdf.org

  • Added new table attributes “border”, “bordercolor”, “cellpadding”

  • Added support for &nbsp;

Version 3.0.11, 2007-11-13

  • New example for loading a page form the web via Python

  • New example “test-invoice.html”

  • Added support for “align” attribute to <td> and <th>

  • Fixed that more than one static frame can use the same named element

  • Added -pdf-next-page to specify next page template

  • Added -pdf-frame-break: after, before

  • Fixed bug for @page without declarations

  • Added option for output of errors as PDF (e.g. useful in web applications)

  • Set “producer” to “pisa”

  • Set author, subject and keywords with <meta>

Version 3.0.10, 2007-11-02

  • Fixed some problems with wrong @page and @frame definitions

  • New property -pdf-frame-box

  • Implemented a pre parser for CSS that cleans up the code with some regular expression, like stripping illegal url http://...

  • Improved online demo

  • First release of binary Windows command line version or pisa

  • Fixed some issues with named anchors

  • Empty documents are now delivered correctly

  • Fixed error on list types

  • Fixed problem with debugging infos

Version 3.0.9, 2007-10-31

  • Modified setup.py for Chesse Shop

  • Added bdist_wininst to setup

  • Moved w3c into sx package and added license text

  • Modified simple.py demo script

  • Clean up for first public release

Version 3.0.8, 2007-10-31

  • Added <a name> and a bugfix for ReportLab anchors

  • Added <a href>

  • More documentation about fonts and new font aliases

  • Fixed some bugs in tables

  • <hr> now uses ReportLabs implementation

  • Margin collapse by using spaceBefore and spaceAfter

  • Renamed -pdf-page-size to size (CSS3)

Version 3.0.7, 2007-10-30

  • Static frames in @frame

  • Wrote layout section in documentation

  • Updated the documentation CSS

  • Renamed @box to @frame

  • Added -pdf-page-size and -pdf-page-orientation

  • Added @page and @box

  • Fixed some problems with font definitions and Unicode

  • Font “Times” does not exist, changed default to “Times-Roman”

  • Margins, paddings and borders are only applied in display:block elements

Version 3.0.6, 2007-10-29

  • Implemented @font-face

  • “font-family” can now handle comma separated font names

  • Implemented <pdf:font> for embedding TTF and PS fonts

  • <link> looks for rel=”stylesheet”

  • Style “white-space” and support for PRE

  • Nested lists and ordered lists, Style “list-style-type”

  • Prepared parser for @page and @box

Version 3.0.5, 2007-10-25

  • Initial implementation of @font-face

  • Warnings are only shown if flag -w is set

  • Relative @import implementations

  • Workaround for styles beginning with asterics like “* font: small”

  • Support for color=transparent (threw Exceptions before)

  • For @import with now media, is now set media=all

  • Fixed the .1 CSS parser problem

  • Removed cssutils again because of problems with @import

  • Ignore CDATA in style definitions

  • New method c.debug and command line option –debug

  • Better URL support

  • CSS attributes may now start with hyphen for vendor specific styles e.g. “-pdf-page-break”

  • Implemented @import

  • Implemented @media

  • Images are now recalculated to 96DPI too

  • 1px = 1/96inch (96dpi) instead of 1px = 1pt = 1/72inch

  • Added some new tests like test-css-media.html

Version 3.0.0

  • Initial versions of pisa rewrite