Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: mgp2pdf
Version: 0.9
Summary: MagicPoint to PDF converter
Home-page: https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf/
Author: Marius Gedminas
Author-email: marius@gedmin.as
License: GPL
Description: mgp2pdf
        =======
        
        This is a quick-and-dirty MagicPoint_ to PDF converter.
        
        .. _MagicPoint: http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/
        
        It supports only a subset of MagicPoint, specifically, the subset I used
        in my slides.
        
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        ::
        
            pip install reportlab  # or sudo apt-get install python-reportlab
        
        
        You can't pip install mgp2pdf (yet).
        
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        ::
        
            python mgp2pdf slides.mgp [-o output.pdf]
        
        
        Why another converter?
        ----------------------
        
        I used mgp to produce slides for a Python course I taught at Vilnius
        University.  However, since most of the students are not (yet) Linux
        users, they couldn't use MagicPoint to view my slides at home.  There are
        some converters from MagicPoint to PostScript/HTML, but the result either
        looks ugly, or doesn't support Unicode characters.  MagicPoint itself can
        produce a number of bitmaps (by taking screenshots), but those are big,
        and the conversion process is inconvenient (you cannot use your machine
        while mgp is busy rendering slides and taking screenshots).
        
        I wrote a Python program to interpret MagicPoint commands and produce a
        PDF file using ReportLab.  It can handle my slides (Lithuanian), but
        otherwise it is probably incomplete.  Feel free to give it a try.  File
        bugs for missing features, and I'll see what I can do.
        
        
        Resources
        ---------
        
        There's a web page, of sorts, at http://mg.pov.lt/mgp2pdf
        
        The source code can be found in this Git repository:
        https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf.
        
        To check it out, use ``git clone https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf``.
        
        Report bugs at https://github.com/mgedmin/mgp2pdf/issues.
        
        Licence: GPL v2 or later (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
        
        If you want to leave a tip, see https://www.gittip.com/mgedmin/
        
        .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/mgedmin/mgp2pdf.svg?branch=master
            :target: https://travis-ci.org/mgedmin/mgp2pdf
        
        
        Changelog
        ---------
        
        0.9 (2014-05-09)
        ----------------
        
        - First packaged release.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
