Format|format conversion - restructured text

Tools to convert restructured text to different format

use easy_install to install these 2

XHTML2PDF:it's called pisa
pisa is a html2pdf converter using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3). It is completely written in pure Python so it is platform independent. The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new tech nologies. Easy integration into Python frameworks like CherryPy, KID Templating, TurboGears, Django, Zope, Plone, Google AppEngine (GAE) etc. (see 'demo' folder for examples)

rst2pdf:this includes some other tools eg rst2htm, etc

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• a2pdf
  
  a2pdf converts plain (ASCII) text files to documents in the PDF format. Its features include optional line/page numbering, multiple font support, syntax highlighting for Perl source code, and customizable headers and footers. Binaries are available for Linux x86, Mac OS X (Intel), and Microsoft Windows platforms.

• Ascii2Binary
  
  Ascii2Binary reads input consisting of textual representations of numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output the binary equivalents.

• ASCIIweb
  
  ASCIIweb is a text-to-HTML formatting system that uses the 'pre' tag to create ASCII art Web pages, either on-the-fly or for static retrieval. It has a simple and flexible module system that also allows you to integrate shell scripts and practically any text output into your Web pages. It will also parse and include live Apache-style directory listings into your pages, giving you a creative and good looking way to make files available to your users. It looks just as good in Lynx as it does in Mozilla.

• bbdir
  
  converts directory tree into a blackbox root menu format

• bib2html
  
  a converter from a BibTeX database to HTML files

• bib2html
  
  a utility for converting a bibTeX file into HTML format. It will recognize the 'url' field in the bibTeX entries and make appropriate links in the HTML output to the URL location

• Bib2x
  
  Bib2x allows the conversion of BibTeX bibliographies to any ASCII/UTF8-based file format using templates. Bib2x allows filtering on a subset of bibliographic entries read from BibTeX databases.

• bib2xhtml
  
  converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically XHTML 1.0). The conversion is mostly done by specialized BibTeX style files, derived from a converted bibliography style template. This ensures that the original BibTeX styles are faithfully reproduced

• bk2site
  
  a GPL program that converts your Netscape bookmakrs file into a yahoo-like web site

• camp2ascii
  
  camp2ascii is a tool for converting Campbell Scientific binary files into ASCII (formatted as CSV, SQL, etc.). It extracts the data stored in the binary files created by data loggers while trying to be fast, reliable, and to extract as much information as possible. It should also work on a wide range of platforms.

• CdUtil
  
  a utility to convert an existing database with a CD-collection into html

• chopro2anything
  
  chopro2anything is a suite of programs that convert chopro files into a range of other formats.

• ConvertAll
  
  ConvertAll is a unit conversion program where you can combine the units any way you want. If you want to convert from inches per decade, that's fine. Or from meter-pounds. Or from cubic nautical miles.

• convmv
  
  convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and even whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in very handy if, for example, one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale or changes charsets on Samba servers. It has some smart features: it automagically recognises if a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC. Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Convmv can also be used for case conversion from upper to lower case and vice versa with virtually any charset. Note that this is a command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0.

• csv2latex
  
  converts a well formed csv file (as done by OpenOffice.org) to a LaTeX document. it is written in C and flush the document to the standard output. The number of columns is automatically detected

• CSV2LDIF
  
  a small converter tool for transforming csv files to ldif

• csv2pdf
  
  (shareware) a very flexible Perl5 program based on txt2pdf 6.x core. It allows you to convert all your CSV files to PDF format, and is flexible enough to run on any platform that supports Perl

• csv2txt
  
  a Perl converter from the CSV format to text format. Some features of csv2txt include the ability to select the CSV delimiter, the ability to set global alignment (left, right, center), and the ability to set the global decimal format

• csv2vcard
  
  a command line tool for converting *.csv (comma seperated values) files to the vcard format

• csv2xml
  
  a simple csv to xml converter. It reads csv files from standard input, and output a valid xml file on standard output

• Currencies
  
  a simple currency converter

• dbtroff
  
  dbtroff uses XSLT, Heirloom troff, and Ghostscript to convert DocBook documents to PDF or PostScript. It allows you to flexibly customize the layout of the generated output by using troff instructions, and provides automatic page element positioning to avoid typographical artifacts like “widows”. Full-width and inline pictures can be included, and are also automatically positioned.

• denature
  
  a perl program that attempts to convert an HTML page into XSL-FO which it then passes off to the FOP (Formatted Objects Formatter) to produce a PDF document

• deplate
  
  a tool for converting wiki-like markup to latex, html, or "html-slides". It supports embedded LaTeX code, footnotes, citations, biblographies, automatic generation of an index etc

• DocToText
  
  DocToText is a utility that can convert MS Word documents to plain text. This allows documents to be used for many things such as searching, indexing, archiving, or just reading in text mode on a console.

• dot2gdl
  
  dot2gdl is a converter from GraphViz Dot files into aiSee (formerly xvcg) GDL files. Although the conversion is non-trivial in general due to different concepts of controlling the layout algorithms, the application converts many graphs nicely already. This package contains a library and a command line tool.

• ebook-tools
  
  ebook-tools provides tools for accessing and converting various ebook file formats.

• edifact2awk
  
  edifact2awk is a small program that parses an EDIFACT file and converts it to a flat text file, which may be easily parsed by the AWK text processing language (including by other scripting languages like Perl, Python, Visual Basic, etc.).

• eoconv
  
  a tool which converts text files to and from Esperanto text encodings

• Epoch2Time
  
  Epoch2Time is a little program to convert Unix epoch values to local time.

• EuroCalc
  
  a simple Euro Calculator

• fig2pstricks
  
  fig2pstricks converts a fig (xfig) file to pstricks. Currently it works with FIG 3.2.

• FileGarden
  
  FileGarden is text to postscript and PDF, image conversion, custom scripting, batch processing, support custom component plugins. Features through a configuration file: * Create your own menu, menu sub-items and speed-buttons, * Run your own program or scripts from the created menu and speed-buttons, * Build your own VCL component and plug it into the programs, * Suitable for files batch conversion, batch. Licence : Freeware.

• Filesystem Charset Converter
  
  converts the file and directory names from one charset to another

• gEuCo
  
  gnome Euro conversor. It converts currencies from all the countries of the Euro community to Euro and vice-versa

• Gneuro
  
  Gneuro is a lightweight Euro / old european currencies converter.

• Gnome-u2ps
  
  Gnome-u2ps converts Unicode texts to GNU a2ps style postscript.

• gonvert
  
  gonvert is a conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc. All units converted values shown at once as you type. Easy to add/change your own units. Written in Python, pygtk, libgade.

• Html To Xhtml Convertor
  
  Html to Xhtml Convertor is a straight-forward Perl script to convert HTML pages into XHTML pages. It can process batches of files, convert Windows/Unix/Mac line breaks, and deal with attribute minimization, quoting of attribute values, and more.

• icxf
  
  converter from the Italian Cadastrial Exchange Format to DXF and SVG

• IDX-DocBook2LaTeX
  
  a stylesheet to convert DocBook XML documents to LaTeX. It is powerful (handles both french and english, tables, footnotes, graphics, indices, bibliography, etc.) and easy to extend

• kdelnk2wmaker
  
  a .desktop (or .kdelnk in old version) to WindowMaker menu converter which supports locale. It uses your environment variable LANG to determine the application name

• KEuroConverter
  
  KEuroConverter is a currency converter includes all the old european currencys that have a fix rate to the Euro. One can also add other currencies in a configuration dialog.

• KExchange
  
  a currency converter for over 70 currencies using up-to-date exchange rates from the PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service

• KUnit
  
  a simple program to convert various units

• LDIF to VCARD conversion
  
  LDIF to VCARD conversion is a simple command line Perl script to migrate a Netscape address book to GnomeCard.

• Linbox Converter
  
  converts MS-Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) to PDF, PostScript, text, HTML, RTF, and TIFF

• Majix
  
  transforms RTF files such as Microsoft Word documents into XML. It can convert headings, lists (numbered or not), simple tables, bold, italics, and underline

• menushki
  
  converts the menus between different Window Managers

• Mozilla Exporter
  
  a utility that converts the configuration files of the Mozilla Web browser from the format used by the Linux version to the format used by the Windows version

• naartex
  
  converts docbook files directly into LaTeX

• NS2Html
  
  NS2Html is a tool which converts configuration files extracted from Netscreen devices into friendly HTML rulebases. It was developed to gather data from policies used at old firewalls under administration.

• NTXShape
  
  a GIS data conversion tool that translates CARIS NTX interchange files into the ESRI shapefile format. It converts points, lines, polygons, text, spot heights, and soundings, preserving virtually all of the information found in the source data

• o3read
  
  a standalone converter for the OpenOffice.org writer format. It doesn't depend on Open Office or any other external tools or libraries

• odf-converter-integrator
  
  odf-converter-integrator is an easy way to open Microsoft Office 2007 files (also called Office Open XML, .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx) with a high-quality conversion on any Linux or Windows system in any version of OpenOffice.org.

• ol2ical
  
  a tool to convert MS Outlook calendar e-mail messages to ical events. ol2ical handles many types of events from Outlook and has some provision for time zone differences

• OperaHotlist2HTML
  
  a Perl script that converts Opera bookmarks (called "Hotlist") to HTML 4.01. It will also convert to Netscape/Mozilla bookmark files as well

• pandoc
  
  pandoc is an implementation of markdown (and much more) in Haskell. It can convert markdown-formatted text to HTML, LaTeX, rich text format, reStructuredText, or an S5 HTML slide show. It can also convert HTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText to markdown.

• PDFRead
  
  PDFRead is a tool for converting PDF and DJVU documents for reading on eBook devices. It does this by creating an image out of each page, enhancing the image, and then collating the images in a device-specific format. It supports creating images for any ebook reader device and has out of the box profiles for the 1100/1150/1200 and PRS-500.

• pfbtopfa
  
  converts PostScript Type 1 fonts in the PFB binary format into the ASCII PFA format used by X and other Unix PostScript Type 1 font uses

• Prince
  
  Prince is a batch formatter for converting XML into PDF and PostScript by applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unlike other formatters, Prince prints any XML vocabulary without relying on proprietary markup.

• PyC2LaTeX
  
  takes a given c, java or idl file and writes a (beautiful) latex file to prettyprint the code

• Quick Base Converter
  
  an ANSI C command line base convertor. It also does posfix basic operations, interpreting the numbers as natural numbers. It supports any base from 2 to Z

• rem2ics
  
  rem2ics will convert the output of "remind -s" into correct RFC2445 iCalendar format.

• Republic
  
  enables old-style computer reports (formally known as 'ascii' reports to be parsed and turned into OASIS OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet documents. This data can then more easily analysed by management. Parsing Rules are held in a simple XML format

• roffit
  
  converts input nroff man pages to output HTML pages

• Rosetta
  
  an interactive tool to help translate documents in the DocBook format. More specifically it'll read any text with DocBook XML markup and present it to the translater split-up between mark up and real text

• rst2pdf
  
  rst2pdf is a tool to convert Restructured Text to PDF without using any intermediate formats.

• RTFX
  
  converts RTF files into a generic XML format. It majors on keeping meta data like style names, etc... rather than every bit of formatting. This makes it handy for converting RTF documents into a custom XML format

• RusXMMS
  
  RusXMMS provides character set conversion for languages which can be represented with more than one character set.

• sdml2txt
  
  sdml2txt is a script to convert SDML to ASCII text UML Sequence Diagrams. SDML is an extremely simplistic UML sequence diagram markup language.

• sh2html
  
  a shell wrapper and awk script, that formats a Bourne-compatible shell script into syntax highlighted HTML

• Shape Tools
  
  a very simple tool to convert from ARCINFO EXPORT (.E00) to ESRI ShapeFile

• soffice2html
  
  converts a staroffice/openoffice.org document to HTML, using xsltproc for the xml conversion and ImageMagick's convert to convert images. Also create a table of contents with links, handles tables, styles, spans, and many other xml elements from a writer file

• spirito-pisa
  
  pisa converts HTML to PDF using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib, and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3).

• StarOffice Converter
  
  creates a simple filter to convert StarOffice 5.x documents into plain text. Currently it works for Writer documents

• sub2srt
  
  a simple tool to convert 2 common subtitle formats (microdvd and subrip - both are known as ".sub") to subviewer ".srt" format

• Tamil Converters
  
  This package contains five programs that convert among several encodings of Tamil and the ITRANS romanization. Two programs convert between ISCII and ITRANS, two between ISCII and Unicode. The fifth program, tscii2uni, converts the TSCII encoding of Tamil to UTF-8 Unicode.

• Temperature Converter
  
  a Perl/Tk app to convert between the Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, Rankine and Reaumur temperature scales

• Text-to-PDB-Doc
  
  a Unix-based Text-to-Doc file conversion program. (It also converts Doc files to plain text.)

• Tipograf
  
  a graphical user interface for the famous a2ps program

• trace2html
  
  trace2html is a utility to convert execution coverage data obtained with the trace module of the standard Python library into a set of human readable HTML documents showing a sortable summary and annotated source files.

• txt2docbook
  
  allows one to convert a ascii (README-like) file to a valid docbook xml document. It simplifies the publishing of rather small papers significantly

• txt2xhtml
  
  a plain text to XHTML converter. It outputs valid XHTML and CSS code. It allows user to specify some styles as command line parameters and to import some external stylesheets or create link to them. txt2xhtml allows user to specify multiple input files

• UConvert
  
  a simple units conversion program

• uni2ascii
  
  This package provides conversion in both directions between UTF-8 Unicode and a variety of 7-bit ASCII equivalents. Such ASCII equivalents are useful when including Unicode text in program source, when debugging, and when entering text into web programs that can handle the Unicode character set but are not 8-bit safe.

• units
  
  GNU `units' converts between different systems of units. It can handle multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions, such as Fahrenheit to Celsius. Over 2000 units definitions are included in a well-annotated data file.

• unoconv
  
  unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOffice understands. It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents.

• vim2html
  
  a small shell program that will export any Vim-editable file into well-formed HTML - simulating a Vim session

• vsdviewer
  
  vsdviewer is a MS Visio Drawing and Stencil (VSD/VSS) import filter for the sK1 vector editor and UniConvertor. It can also be used as a standalone viewer.

• xhtml2pdf
  
  xhtml2pdf converts HTML/XHTML/XHML to PDF using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib, and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3). It has best support for frameworks like Django, Turbogears, CherryPy, Pylons, WSGI.

• xtopdf
  
  xtopdf is a PDF creation/conversion toolkit. It is both a set of end-user tools and a library for developers. It supports creating PDF (Portable Document Format) files from plain text, DBF (XBASE), CSV (Comma Separated Values), TDV (Tab Delimited Values) and XLS (Microsoft Excel).

• YAFPC
  
  Yet Another Free PDF-composer: can compose PDF documents from picture files and other PDF files, encrypt the created document and send it to some e-mail address. YAFPC is aimed to act as command-line tool in combination with GhostScript

• z2html
  
  translates Z input code to compliant XHTML 1.1, and the translator also comes with a full Z language manual