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["Simon Gauvin" <gauvins@xxxxxxxxx>]

All sounds good to me :-)

Philippe, I assume you will let me know who Celerick Stephens is... :-)

>> >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=3F
>> 
>> Ok, shall we, I mean you, make a release after we have finished these
>> tasks=3F
>
>Well, I was thinking when these tasks would be done we could reach a v1.0
 alpha, beta, etc stages, couldn't we=3F
>I mean, PDF Writer features at this time would be enough to offer minimal but
 operational PDF generation, right=3F
>
>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=3F".
>Like, you know: commit often, release often...
>
>Anyway, tasks assignments:
>
>philippe:
>  1. bitmap creation for colorspace !=3D B=5FARGB32
>  2. type1 identification
>
>michael:
>  4. pattern
>  6. clip to string
>
>simon:
>  7. documentation (with Celerick Stephens, maybe=3F)
>  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.
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 Simon Gauvin,
 Dalhousie University
 gauvins@xxxxxxxxx