[open-beos-printing] Re: Open Tasks for PDF Writer
- From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: open-beos-printing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:29:11 +0100
Hi Philippe,
>By 2. Type1 indentification, do you mean dynamic type1 fonts declaration to
>PDFlib? Like the stuff I'd for TrueType fonts file?
>If that correct, I'll take this point 2.
I had already hoped that you do this. :-)
>> 3 is supported by PDF 1.4 but not by PDFlib; temporary solution
>> could be to render an entire page into a bitmap (or slices..) if we
>> want to support it now; I vote against it or at least I will not
>> implement it
>
>I'll vote against too.
>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.
>I'm taking point 2.
>Okay, give me this point 1 too, bitmaps are fun and I've some experience since
>bubblejet rasterization engine! ;-)
>> I could do 1, 2, 4 and 6, but I can only contribute to this project
>> until the end of this month and have to postpone all my open source
>> activities until later this year.
>
>I (we) perfectly understand. As main contributor to this project, you're the
>best PDF features aware member of the team: /me think it's better if you focus
>on point 4 and 6, which, for one
at least, don't really know how to implement.
Ok.
>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?
- Michael
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