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diff --git a/textproc/py-pdfrw/DESCR b/textproc/py-pdfrw/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5fd49787ce4 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/py-pdfrw/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +pdfrw is a Python library and utility that reads and writes PDF files: + + * Version 0.2 is tested and works on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. + * Operations include subsetting, merging, rotating, modifying metadata, etc. + * The fastest pure Python PDF parser available + * Has been used for years by a printer in pre-press production + * Can be used with rst2pdf to faithfully reproduce vector images + * Can be used either standalone, or in conjunction with reportlab to reuse + existing PDFs in new ones + * Permissively licensed + +pdfrw will faithfully reproduce vector formats without rasterization, so the +rst2pdf package has used pdfrw for PDF and SVG images by default since March +2010. + +pdfrw can also be used in conjunction with reportlab, in order to re-use +portions of existing PDFs in new PDFs created with reportlab. |