FreeLists / open-beos-printing / [open-beos-printing] Re: Open Tasks for PDF Writer

[philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx]

> >We could wait PDFlib add support to this feature of PDF 1.4.
> >*Or*, we could hack something, like dithering the alpha channel into a
> binary mask. Uh. 
> 
> Ok, then we leave this unimplemented. Just have to make sure that we
> state 
> unimplemented features in the documentation.

Definitly a entry in Knows Limitations chapter, yeah.
Right near point 5 ;-)

> >On same topic, what about a v0.5 release on BeBits?
> 
> Ok, shall we, I mean you, make a release after we have finished these
> tasks?

Well, I was thinking when these tasks would be done we could reach a v1.0 
alpha, beta, etc stages, couldn't we?
I mean, PDF Writer features at this time would be enough to offer minimal but 
operational PDF generation, right?

We could left for v2 release other stuffs like:
- features delayed from v1.0: alpha channel (even if we need to hack something 
then)
- smart links (auto-detection of urls in text), 
- pages thumbnails generation for example
- document user properties editor

What I had in mind for a new v0.5 release was "did you think current/latest 
version stable enough to be release it publicly?".
Like, you know: commit often, release often...

Anyway, tasks assignments:

philippe:
  1. bitmap creation for colorspace != B_ARGB32
  2. type1 identification

michael:
  4. pattern
  6. clip to string

simon:
  7. documentation (with Celerick Stephens, maybe?)
  8. GUI "tuning" of Page/JobSetupWindow, via MarginView

delayed to future release:
  3. alpha channel support
  5. clip to inverse BPicture

Nice to see this project progressing so far... when I start it it was just to 
test if it *would* be possible, nothing more.
Thanks all!

Philippe.