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. --------------------- Simon Gauvin, Dalhousie University gauvins@xxxxxxxxx