Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: rl-renderPM
Version: 4.0.3
Summary: Bitmap Render Acclerator for ReportLab
Home-page: http://www.reportlab.com/
Author: Andy Robinson, Robin Becker, the ReportLab team and the community
Author-email: reportlab-users@lists2.reportlab.com
License: BSD license (see LICENSE.txt for details), Copyright (c) 2000-2022, ReportLab Inc.
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Topic :: Printing
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Requires-Python: >=3.7,<4
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst

``rl_renderPM`` is a package containing the ReportLab accelerator module

``_renderPM``

which can be used to speedup the ``reportlab.graphics.renderPM`` functions.

The python bitmap render module ``reportlab.graphics.renderPM`` can either use ``rlPyCairo``, ``pycairo`` and ``freetype-py``
or ``rl_renderPM`` + built in ``freetype`` libraries.

The choice is made by overriding the ``reportlab.rl_settings`` module value ``_renderPMBackend``
using one of the settings files ``reportlab/local_reportlab_settings.py``, ``reportlab_settings.py`` or  ``~/.reportlab_settings``, which are searched for in that order.

The default value of ``renderPMBackend`` is ``'rlPyCairo'``, but it can be set to ``'_renderPM'`` to use this extension
which is based on an older library ``libart_lgpl``. 
