Platypus is a full-featured and easy-to-use page layout and typesetting system.

Inspired by technologies such as TeX, Platypus adds new features and, especially, ease of use to the generation of documents of all kinds. It is particularly adept at listing code, and so is frequently used for documentation. Input consists of text files with embedded formatting commands. These files are converted by Platypus to PDF, HTML, or Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF).

Platypus is written in Java and relies on the iText library. It is available at no charge under the Apache open-source license. For more information, see the links to the left.

Features in the current release include:

• basic Type 1 fonts
• bold, italics, underline, strikethrough
• foreign characters (enough for French, German, Spanish)
• left, center, right alignment and justified text
• customizable page size
• customizable margins
• indented/unindented paragraphs
• page-number footer
• debugging features

If you would like to be kept abreast of upcoming milestone releases, place yourself on our low-volume mailing list by sending an e-mail to: announce[dash]subscribe [at] platypus.tigris.org.