PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-02-28 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
Hi, I'm university student in Sri Lanka and a newbie to Open Source Development. I would like to participate for Google Summer of Code 2012 with an Apache Project. Since I'm familiar with Java and I have used PDFBox Library for my academic project, I like to develop new feature for PDFBox as my G

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-06 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
Of course, that is if no one >> else does. >> > Thanks for the offer, but AFAIKT it's not possible. According to [1] the > mentor has to be an ASF member or committer. > > > Mehdi >> >> On 6 March 2012 18:43, Andreas Lehmkuehler wrote: >&g

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-17 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
gt; putting myself forward as a candidate... Of course, that is if no one > >>>> else does. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks for the offer, but AFAIKT it's not possible. According to [1] > the > >>> mentor has to be an ASF member or co

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-21 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
Hi, Thanks everyone for your valuable ideas and comments. It seems most of you like to enhancing PDFReader project. Specially I prefer Jeremias' idea, develop application which allow user to access PDFBox features through the GUI and PDF viewer with integrated PDF Debugger. In my opinion it wil

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-28 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
tives? We should think about > some secondary objectives, like possibly supporting Optional Content in the > view (not sure if it already is) and better handling of transparency > layers? > > Just some thoughts, let's keep this discussions fluid for now, we haven't > actu

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-30 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
en if the Eclipse world does ugly things to OSGi. > > Furthermore, I know few good Swing applications but many good RCP > > applications. Maybe that's an indicator. But I'd have to learn RCP > > myself if I was to help out with this. > > > > Optional Cont

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-04-02 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
the structure of PDF file and understanding PDFBox core functionalities. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara < tharaka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Idea about object inspector is clear and I think I can make that dream > into reality. ;) > >

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-04-05 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
Hi, Thank you very much for your feedbacks and suggestions. After going through all of your feedbacks, I modified the proposal with them and used some my own ideas also. Additionally, I included the proposed time line of the project and I would like to see your comments here. *Project Title* I

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-04-17 Thread Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara
here. As for the proposal, thats > > fine, > > > I'd be happy with that proposal. If no one else has any comments on > this, > > > I'd suggest moving writing this up on google-melange and getting the > ball > > > rolling. > > > > > >