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
Hi,
Am 29.02.2012 03:50, schrieb 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 m
Hi Andreas,
Does the mentor need to be a PDFBox committer? If not, I wouldn't mind
putting myself forward as a candidate... Of course, that is if no one
else does.
Mehdi
On 6 March 2012 18:43, Andreas Lehmkuehler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 29.02.2012 03:50, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
>
>>
Hi,
Am 06.03.2012 21:24, schrieb mehdi houshmand:
Hi Andreas,
Does the mentor need to be a PDFBox committer? If not, I wouldn't mind
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
Hi,
Andreas,Mehdi Thanks for the response.
It seems hard to find a mentor. Anyway I hopefully continue my effort on
the project.
I would very much appreciate it if someone would like to help me by being a
mentor and it will be remarkable experience for both of us as well as our
community.
On We
Hi Andreas,
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear, I am an ASF committer... Just not to
PDFBox.. . I do have domain expertise being a full-time FOP developer
and having dealt with PDFs and fonts quite a bit. Should I pop an
email to dev-community to see if it's ok? It seems like such a waste
to have an inte
Hi,
Am 07.03.2012 07:40, schrieb mehdi houshmand:
Hi Andreas,
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear, I am an ASF committer... Just not to
PDFBox.. . I do have domain expertise being a full-time FOP developer
and having dealt with PDFs and fonts quite a bit. Should I pop an
email to dev-community to see i
Hi Tharaka,
Have you had any more thoughts on a project you'd like to undertake?
Have you applied and been through all the admin needed to be accepted
into GSoC 2012? Let me know if you need any help.
Mehdi
On 9 March 2012 06:25, Andreas Lehmkuehler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 07.03.2012 07:40, schrieb
Hi,
Thanks mehdi.
I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select
suitable one.
- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. This feature can
be found in JIRA also (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-6,
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/P
Hi,
Am 18.03.2012 03:16, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
Hi,
Thanks mehdi.
I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select
suitable one.
- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. This feature can
be found in JIRA also (https://issues.apach
Hi,
If you're looking for more ideas, I've got a couple suggestions concerning
PDF post-processing which are available with other PDF libraries:
1) PDF optimizations - This could be PDF linearization, image-resolution
reduction, font subsetting (when fonts are fully embedded) etc... There are
qui
Hey guys
On 18.03.2012 03:16:14 Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Thanks mehdi.
>
>
> I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select
> suitable one.
>
>
>- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. This feature can
>be found in JIRA a
Hi,
suggestions:
1) Mapping PDF features to version and standards e.g. layers in PDF are a PDF
1.5 feature, AES encryption for PDF 1.6.
2) PDF Writer to support versions and standards
3) OpenType support
4) Performance improvements (e.g. with some applications we developed iText is
approx. 30%
Hi,
> Hi,
>
> Am 18.03.2012 03:16, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Thanks mehdi.
>>
>>
>> I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select
>> suitable one.
>>
>>
>>- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. This feature can
>>
>
> Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many ways
> there are already so many Readers out there as well as PDF support within
> web browsers my personal opinion is that enhancing PDFBox core capabilities
> would be more beneficial.
>
> With kind regards
>
> Maruan Sah
>
>
>>
>> Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many ways
>> there are already so many Readers out there as well as PDF support within
>> web browsers my personal opinion is that enhancing PDFBox core capabilities
>> would be more beneficial.
>>
>> With kind regards
>
I vote for a PDS editor kind of stuff.
Another thing regarding the HTML to PDS, cant it be done with XSL-FO
feature?
Thanks
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Maruan Sahyoun wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many
> ways
> >> there are alread
Hi,
Am 18.03.2012 03:16, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select
suitable one.
- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. ...
- Other one is enhancing features of PDF reader and zooming features,
pag
There are a number of HTML to XSL-FO converters. I've never checked how
good the results are but ultimately a native HTML engine is likely to
produce better results especially since HTML was not really designed for
print and has to be retrofitted in CSS3. But again, this is a large
project and, IMO
Hi Tharaka,
You have plenty of options here, the student application deadline is on the
6th April (see the calendar
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012), so you've got
plenty of time.
Let me and/or the community know if you have any questions about the
projects. If you have
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
Hi Tharaka,
Ok, well let's start with thinking about how this GUI is going to look. In
its current form, it's looking a little dated, it might be worth using some
of the GUI frameworks out there to spruce it up a little and making it a
bit more modern. So if we get a list of TODOs (starting with J
Hi,
Thanx mehdi, you have summarized all primary objective and we can continue
discussion based on it.
For the GUI, I'm going to use Swing Framework and to modernize we can go
for some available look and Feel such as nimbus. Is there any suggestion?
I need some ideas about PDF object inspector
Hi Tharaka,
Object Inspector: I'm not sure you need a tree for inspecting a single
object. The tree is useful when the PDF debugger is integrated as an
alternative view of a PDF. I'd expect to have a customized window (a
plug-in ;-) ) for each kind of object when inspecting it. A bitmap image
woul
I think my hopes and dreams are pretty exactly the same as Jeremias'. These
features would give PDFBox differentiation from Adobe products which focus
much more design of PDF rather than nuts and bots debugging. As for the
GUI, I'm really not fussy regarding the UI framework you use, but RCP does
l
Hi,
Idea about object inspector is clear and I think I can make that dream into
reality. ;)
I have some doubt regarding RCP. Actually I didn't have any previous
experience with RPC and read some articles to get idea about it. As per my
understanding, although there are several RCPs in our case
Hi,
I have completed some parts of the the GSoC proposal and I need some
feedback from the community about the that. Here a I used swing approach
since I have some doubts about RCP. Anyway I also understand RCP will
easy approach rather than this and if someone going to help me on that I'm
still r
Hi Tharaka,
I'd say it's looking pretty good, you've got a lot of information there, so
great job!!
I would however say maybe adding some secondary objectives would be a good
idea, just so we explicitly display the intentions of the project. Having
secondary objectives are also good to give you f
Hi,
I like your proposal, comments see below ...
Am 03.04.2012 02:34, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
Hi,
I have completed some parts of the the GSoC proposal and I need some
feedback from the community about the that. Here a I used swing approach
since I have some doubts about RCP. An
I like it, too. More below...
On 03.04.2012 19:55:40 Andreas Lehmkuehler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I like your proposal, comments see below ...
>
> Am 03.04.2012 02:34, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have completed some parts of the the GSoC proposal and I need some
> > feedbac
>
>
>
> How about just implementing the "add text" feature? That should be
> relatively easy. Add a new optional content group to the page and add
> all text as part of that. That makes this a cool tool to fill out forms
> that were scanned, or that are not AcroForms. I fully agree that the
> repl
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
Hi Tharaka,
Sorry for the slow response, my bad, I don't have any worthwhile excuse
other than it's holiday season over 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
Ok, well, disappointingly we've missed the deadline to submit a proposal
and review said proposal. Thanks for all the support from everyone, sorry
we couldn't arrange it this year.
Mehdi
On 10 April 2012 08:22, mehdi houshmand wrote:
> Hi Tharaka,
>
> Sorry for the slow response, my bad, I don'
Well Still who ever wants want to work can work on that. It will be their
credit. GSc is not the only way.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
> Ok, well, disappointingly we've missed the deadline to submit a proposal
> and review said proposal. Thanks for all the support fr
Hi Mehdi,
I can't understand what actually happened. I submitted my proposal before
the deadline (April 6:19:00 UTC) and still it's available in google-melange
site. Also according to timeline mentors are supposed to review the
proposal before the 20th April. I may be wrong, but don't have any id
Hi Tharaka,
Really? I could have sworn there was a 16th April deadline! I haven't had
an email with your request (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa),
the dev-community gets spammed with everyone's projects proposals, and
there have been a lot. I just found
Hi Tharaka,
I've just been trawling through my emails and there's been some confusion
here. The google-melange deadline is 20th April for project submissions,
however, because the ASF is a large and single organization it gets an
allocation of GSoC places. The ASF then needs to go through all the
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