[open-beos-printing] Re: Open Tasks for PDF Writer
- From: "Simon Gauvin" <gauvins@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: open-beos-printing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:06:54 -0500
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
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