[seul-edu] [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] PDFMap v1.00]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: Jerome Alet <alet@unice.fr>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] PDFMap v1.00
>
> Hi,
>
> I was told some of you might be interested :
>
> I'm pleased to announce the first public release of PDFMap, a command line
> tool and Python library to help people create high quality maps in PDF
> format with clickable objects on them. It was made to create
> archaeological maps for some caves but you can do other things as well :
> look at the example to learn more.
>
> Each object is placed on the map at its correct dimensions (you can also
> apply a magnifying factor if you want), and orientation.
>
> This software is licensed under the GNU GPL and intensively uses the
> ReportLab package (version 1.11 or higher).
>
> You can download it from :
>
>         http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfmap/
>
> The CVS tree is now available too.
>
> The public area available directly from
>
>         http://pdfmap.sourceforge.net
>
> still needs a lot of work, but contains an example of a pdf map and a
> screenshot, as well as the scripts which created this map.
>
> In the tests/ subdirectory, two sample scripts are present, the first in
> Python, the second in Bourne Again Shell language, but both produce
> exactly the same map. The sample dataset and configuration files are in
> the tests/ directory too, so you can easily see if their format can match
> your own datas and skills ;-) easily (this is probably the case).
>
> The sample dataset and raster map was generously given to this project by
> Intevation GmbH (http://www.intevation.de)
>
> After having extracted the tarball, please read the README and
> tests/README to learn how to use this software and produce your
> own maps.
>
> You can subscribe to pdfmap's mailing list from :
>
>         http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pdfmap-users/
>
> Any comment or help is appreciated.
>
> Since I'm currently not subscribed to this list, please reply privately.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jerome Alet

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