On 03/06/2012 07:29 PM, Chris Bowditch wrote:
On 06/03/2012 11:08, mehdi houshmand wrote:
Hi Mehdi,
Font de-duping is intrinsically a post-process action, you need the
full document, with all fonts, before you can do any font de-duping.
PostScript does this very thing (to a much lesser extent)
My reply is interleaved below, but there's something important to cover
before reading on.
There's clearly a difference in what I mean by de-duplication vs what
you're thinking I mean by de-duplication. As far as I can tell you're
looking at font substitution and un/re-embedding, where (eg) He
On 06/03/2012 11:08, mehdi houshmand wrote:
Hi Mehdi,
Font de-duping is intrinsically a post-process action, you need the
full document, with all fonts, before you can do any font de-duping.
PostScript does this very thing (to a much lesser extent) with the
tag, as a post-process action.
At l
Font de-duping is intrinsically a post-process action, you need the
full document, with all fonts, before you can do any font de-duping.
PostScript does this very thing (to a much lesser extent) with the
tag, as a post-process action.
Also, the requirements aren't clear here, what is it we want h
On 06/03/2012 10:12, mehdi houshmand wrote:
I fat-fingered the reply button instead of reply-to-all... *face-palm*
Mehdi, Craig,
- Anything in the proposed XSL-FO 2.0 feature list (though most of it won't
be realistic for GSoC projects);
- Merge fop-pdf-image and implement smart merging of
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From: mehdi houshmand
Date: 6 March 2012 10:12
Subject: Fwd: Google Summer of Code
To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
I fat-fingered the reply button instead of reply-to-all... *face-palm*
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From: mehdi houshmand
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From: mehdi houshmand
Date: 6 March 2012 09:33
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code
To: Craig Ringer
On 6 March 2012 00:16, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 09:35 PM, me
On 03/05/2012 09:35 PM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
Because of the overwhelming popularity of this idea, I've created a
link on the Wiki
(http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/GoogleSummerOfCode2012) for
the GSoC proposals.
You note font library extraction as a possibility there. I'd like to
note
On 03/05/2012 09:35 PM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
Because of the overwhelming popularity of this idea, I've created a
link on the Wiki
(http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/GoogleSummerOfCode2012) for
the GSoC proposals.
Things that come to mind for me:
- PDFBox backend (probably ideal for GSoC
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Chris Bowditch
wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 16:18, mehdi houshmand wrote:
>
>> I agree that there may be some good project ideas in the bug list, but I
>> don't think the one Alex highlighted is a good one. Changing the layout
>> algorithm is a major undertaking, probably
e various skills that we as a community can impart upon them.
I've included a link to the GSoC below, but if you do some research,
there's plenty of information out there.
http://code.google.com/soc/
Mehdi
On 1 March 2012 16:13, Glenn Adams wrote:
could you provide a link to the &qu
ts as proposals would be a good way to get
>>>>> some new interest into the project. I think it would be good for us as
>>>>> we benefit from any work done, and it helps whomever does the work
>>>>> learn the various skills that we as a community can impart
t;>>> putting a few FOP projects as proposals would be a good way to get
>>>> some new interest into the project. I think it would be good for us as
>>>> we benefit from any work done, and it helps whomever does the work
>>>> learn the various skills that we as
em.
>> >
>> > I've included a link to the GSoC below, but if you do some research,
>> > there's plenty of information out there.
>> >
>> > http://code.google.com/soc/
>> >
>> > Mehdi
>> >
>> > On 1 Ma
a community can impart upon them.
> >
> > I've included a link to the GSoC below, but if you do some research,
> > there's plenty of information out there.
> >
> > http://code.google.com/soc/
> >
> > Mehdi
> >
> > On 1 March 2012 16:13
1 March 2012 16:13, Glenn Adams wrote:
>> could you provide a link to the "Google Summer of Code Project"? how does it
>> relate to ASF and FOP activities?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
"Google Summer of Code Project"? how does it
> relate to ASF and FOP activities?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of
>> Code proj
could you provide a link to the "Google Summer of Code Project"? how does
it relate to ASF and FOP activities?
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of
> Code project and wa
Hi,
We're thinking of submitting a proposal or two to the Google Summer of
Code project and wanted to get some input from the community on ideas.
Once we've got a few proposals I'll create a wiki page and put all the
ideas on there, but for now I just wanted to gauge interes
Hi everyone,
>> Could anyone
>> help understanding what is that exactly? I've crawled through the
>> available JIRA projects and saw none related with XML Graphics (Batik,
>> FOP, XML Graphics Commons)... (Also, if this is a lengthy process I'd
>> hint towards maybe triggering the process now so
Hi everyone,
>> If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in
>> JIRA, see the above web page.
Oops, I missed that sentence; today, while revisiting this thread I
noticed that, according to the timeline [1], the proposals will need
to be postponed for next year. :-| The
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Helder Magalhães wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Somehow related, in the guide to being a mentor, it's stated in the
> procedure that one should "Add an issue to JIRA (if your project
> doesn't use JIRA contact d...@community.apache.org)" [2]. Could anyone
> hel
Simon Pepping wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:37:12PM +, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
>
>> Speaking of the release, many parts of the website are largely outdated
>> and need a serious re-work (the Development tab, mainly). Also, any
>> reference to 0.20.5 should IMO be removed before releasin
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:37:12PM +, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Speaking of the release, many parts of the website are largely outdated
> and need a serious re-work (the Development tab, mainly). Also, any
> reference to 0.20.5 should IMO be removed before releasing 1.0. 0.20.5
> is a thing o
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:07:21PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote:
>> Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to
>> start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for
>> GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor?
>
> Simon
Vincent
would make up a GSoC project?
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:07:21PM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote:
> Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to
> start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for
> GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mento
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote:
>
> If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in
> JIRA, see the above web page. Then you must advertise your projects so
> as to attract students; that part is not clear to me.
>
After some more reading of th
ed that it is time for our projects to
> start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for
> GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor?
>
> Simon
>
> --
> Simon Pepping
> home
Simon Pepping wrote:
> Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to
> start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for
> GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor?
If any student comes up with a good idea of project in the FOP are
Hi everyone,
> Do we have ideas for GSoC projects?
Actually I have a couple ideas, in the scope of Batik:
1. Online SVG Rasterization Service
Create an online service for SVG rasterization, as a valuable way to
allow users to benefit from SVG while keeping up with the possibility
of using raste
our projects to
> start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for
> GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor?
>
> Simon
>
> --
> Simon Pepping
> home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
>
Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to
start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for
GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor?
Simon
--
Simon Pepping
home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
Hi Simon,
Simon Pepping a écrit :
I have one small comment on your decomposition of the line breaking
algorithm:
* defining a somewhat arbitrary formula used to compute the demerit of each
break, and which is to be minimized;
I find the above second item in this list a bit misplaced. It
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:19:27AM +0200, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Simon Pepping a écrit :
> As far as I'm concerned, I'm planning to put my thoughts about the
> project on a dedicated Wiki page. I think that just providing high-level
> comments on them would already be of great he
On 28.05.2006 20:29:24 Simon Pepping wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:47:03PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> > Congratulations to both of you! Both projects got a score of 10 which is
> > the fourth highest score. The ASF got a total of 27 projects. There were
> > other ASF members who voted f
Hi Simon,
Simon Pepping a écrit :
I have winters of code and summers of less code. That diminishes my
ability to provide assistance.
What kind of work and responsibilities would assistance include? What
would be the time constraints, that is, how fast needs a review be
done or a question be ans
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:47:03PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> Congratulations to both of you! Both projects got a score of 10 which is
> the fourth highest score. The ASF got a total of 27 projects. There were
> other ASF members who voted for the acceptance of the two FOP proposals.
> That's
ias.
I'm glad to at last have the possibility to work full-time on Fop.
I hope I will perform good work.
Vincent
Patrick Paul a écrit :
Hello everyone,
Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of
Code to work on the auto table layout.
Thank you very much Jeremias for ta
rk.
>
> Vincent
>
>
> Patrick Paul a écrit :
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of Code to
> > work on the auto table layout.
> >
> > Thank you very much Jeremias for taking the time to apply as a mentor
> > and rank our projects.
Thanks,
Jeremias Maerki
Vincent Hennebert schrieb:
> Same for me! We will perhaps have to clone Jeremias.
Wohoo! That's really great news (for both of you and for FOP)
Christian
Same for me! We will perhaps have to clone Jeremias.
I'm glad to at last have the possibility to work full-time on Fop.
I hope I will perform good work.
Vincent
Patrick Paul a écrit :
Hello everyone,
Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of Code to
work on the
Hello everyone,
Great news for me today, I got accepted for the Google Summer of Code to
work on the auto table layout.
Thank you very much Jeremias for taking the time to apply as a mentor
and rank our projects.
Patrick
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Got it and rated it. All green! :-)
On
Got it and rated it. All green! :-)
On 07.05.2006 22:24:26 Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Ok, this should have worked this time. Don't know what happened.
>
> Vincent
>
>
> Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
> > Vincent, I'm afraid I don't see your application, either. You could
> > simply try again or cont
Ok, this should have worked this time. Don't know what happened.
Vincent
Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
Vincent, I'm afraid I don't see your application, either. You could
simply try again or contact the GSoC support.
On 07.05.2006 19:12:26 Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi Jeremias,
Normally my appl
Vincent, I'm afraid I don't see your application, either. You could
simply try again or contact the GSoC support.
On 07.05.2006 19:12:26 Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Hi Jeremias,
>
> Normally my application should have been sent. However I don't see it on
> my home page so I wonder if it has to be
Hi Jeremias,
Normally my application should have been sent. However I don't see it on
my home page so I wonder if it has to be reviewed first or if the submit
has failed. The way the webapp works isn't clear to me yet. Do you see
my application?
Vincent
Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
Hi Patrick,
On 05.05.2006 22:44:36 Patrick Paul wrote:
> This is great news :-)
>
> I hope that our score(s) will stay high. Do you have your say in the
> score that the projects get ?
Yes, every registered mentor for the ASF can rate every ASF-related
proposal.
> Have a nice week-end,
You, too.
> Patri
This is great news :-)
I hope that our score(s) will stay high. Do you have your say in the
score that the projects get ?
Have a nice week-end,
Patrick
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Hi Patrick,
green lights everywhere. I've already ranked it and applied for the
mentor position. It turns out that
Hi Patrick,
green lights everywhere. I've already ranked it and applied for the
mentor position. It turns out that the Wiki in the ASF this time only
was about collecting ideas for projects (unlike last year). The real
project proposals are those on the Google site. At this moment, only 7
entries
Hi Jeremias,
Any news from GSoC ? Were you able to see my application and rank it ?
How are things going within the ASF ?
Patrick
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
It looks like you two need to sign up for the GSoC directly on the
website and enter your application there based on the info on the ASF
W
Hi Jeremias,
I have submitted an application. Indeed all this is unclear, I never
realized mentors also had to signup. But I'm sure that with your
reputation there won't be any problems ;-)
In my application I mainly copied the content of the Wiki page. Should
you have any comments or sugges
It looks like you two need to sign up for the GSoC directly on the
website and enter your application there based on the info on the ASF
Wiki. This needs to be completed until May 8. After that the
applications will be rated by the mentors. To me this was all a bit
confusing despite the extensive F
Same here, I've added an entry for auto table layout, right after Vincents.
Patrick
Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Ok, I've added an entry for floats implementation.
I'll be off-line from tomorrow until the 6th of may. Just hoping no
particular problem will occur during my absence. Anyway, if I don
Ok, I've added an entry for floats implementation.
I'll be off-line from tomorrow until the 6th of may. Just hoping no
particular problem will occur during my absence. Anyway, if I don't
answer mails that's just normal.
Vincent
Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
Yes, please add entries for the two p
Yes, please add entries for the two projects. That Wiki page is the
first station. I'm not sure, yet, who exactly will transfer the
proposals to Google (can't remember from last year, either), but the
first step is to identify the projects inside the ASF. I'll need to read
through the whole mentori
Jeremias,
Do you think we should have our two projects posted on the Apache Wiki ?
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2006
Is it better to go through that page, or will our proposals be forwarded
directly to you anyway ?
Thanks,
Patrick
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
I don't see why you
Thank you Jeremias for your amendements.
Patrick
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Thanks, Vincent and Patrick, for writing down your proposals.
Patrick's is pretty clear. I've only amended it a little. I hope it
won't be a problem that the task cannot be well estimated, yet.
Vincent, a comment on your
On 24.04.2006 20:49:54 Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Hi Jeremias,
>
> Thanks for your review!
>
> > Vincent, a comment on yours: For before-floats, you refer to best-fit
> > and first-fit approaches. I'm not sure if it's really relevant here. If
> > I'm not mistaken before-floats are pretty similar
Hi Jeremias,
Thanks for your review!
Vincent, a comment on yours: For before-floats, you refer to best-fit
and first-fit approaches. I'm not sure if it's really relevant here. If
I'm not mistaken before-floats are pretty similar to footnotes which
means you can probably take a lot from there. I
Thanks, Vincent and Patrick, for writing down your proposals.
Patrick's is pretty clear. I've only amended it a little. I hope it
won't be a problem that the task cannot be well estimated, yet.
Vincent, a comment on yours: For before-floats, you refer to best-fit
and first-fit approaches. I'm not
That's great thank you.
I added my own page. It's only a start for now. I took some presentation
ideas from you, I hope you don't mind too much. I won't mind if you do
the same in the future.
Cheers,
Patrick
Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking about setting up a page on the FOP-wik
Hi,
I'm thinking about setting up a page on the FOP-wiki where I would put
up the goals for my proposal. That way I could give the link when
submitting my application.
Nice idea, indeed. I've taken the liberty of implementing it and created
a new Wiki page for the SoC, linked from the Develop
Before-floats are similar to footnotes, so yes, that part will be (a lot)
simpler. I didn't do much thinking about side-float so it's difficicult
for me to do an estimate. Anyway, your proposal sounds good.
On 20.04.2006 00:30:52 Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
> > I don't see
On 19.04.2006 22:57:13 Patrick Paul wrote:
> Jeremias,
>
> I think this is most reasonable. In any case I whish to contribute as
> mush as possible.
>
> I'm thinking about setting up a page on the FOP-wiki where I would put
> up the goals for my proposal. That way I could give the link when
>
Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
I don't see why you couldn't also apply for a slot. Having floats would
be cool (but not simple). I'm not sure about your work on FOrayFont. I
think the projects have to be tied to one of the organizations listed by
Google. Only the client part in FOP would be part of th
Jeremias,
I think this is most reasonable. In any case I whish to contribute as
mush as possible.
I'm thinking about setting up a page on the FOP-wiki where I would put
up the goals for my proposal. That way I could give the link when
submitting my application.
Also, I will be in Europe in
Summer of Code. Also, FOP is a project of the
ASF which is just one of the many mentoring organizations...
Anyway, I sure hope we can both get accepted to work on FOP this summer.
Patrick
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
I don't see why you couldn't also apply for a slot. Having floats would
be
I don't see why you couldn't also apply for a slot. Having floats would
be cool (but not simple). I'm not sure about your work on FOrayFont. I
think the projects have to be tied to one of the organizations listed by
Google. Only the client part in FOP would be part of that. So floats
would be the b
Patrick, you were faster than me ;-)
I would also be interesting in applying to the Summer of Code. It would
at last give me the opportunity to work full-time on Fop. Is it
conceivable that I also apply, along with Patrick?
Although I'm a bit doubtful that my work on FOrayFont could be eligible
We can set it up so the basic auto table layout is the main goal and
then we add some optional additional goals. That should help making sure
we don't set the bar unrealistically high if we can't do a good estimate.
I'm glad to hear you want to contribute beyond the SoC boundaries. It's
good to ge
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Patrick,
I have the suspicion that the auto table layout won't fill you up. With
the new design, basic support for auto table layout shouldn't be a very
big deal. There are some details, however, that could make this a much
bigger fish:
I did suspect it would not be e
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Patrick,
I have the suspicion that the auto table layout won't fill you up. With
the new design, basic support for auto table layout shouldn't be a very
big deal.
That's good news, but I'd *really* like to have it :-)
Unfortunately, I have no time to implement it myself.
On 19.04.2006 10:02:19 Chris Bowditch wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremias,
>
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > yes, I've seen that something's going on in that corner. After my
> > experience last year, I was a bit hesitant to take another stab, but
> > since we've already worked together, I'
Patrick,
I have the suspicion that the auto table layout won't fill you up. With
the new design, basic support for auto table layout shouldn't be a very
big deal. There are some details, however, that could make this a much
bigger fish:
Determining ideal column widths based on the inline elment l
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Hi Jeremias,
Hi Patrick,
yes, I've seen that something's going on in that corner. After my
experience last year, I was a bit hesitant to take another stab, but
since we've already worked together, I'd be fine mentoring a little
project. There are a lot of things that cou
Hi Jeremias,
I am happy to know you have a good impression of me. I do have good Java
skills, from personal experience as well as from 4 university courses
that involved Java.
Implementing the auto table layout sounds like the kind of contribution
I would really enjoy bringing to the FOP pro
Hi Patrick,
yes, I've seen that something's going on in that corner. After my
experience last year, I was a bit hesitant to take another stab, but
since we've already worked together, I'd be fine mentoring a little
project. There are a lot of things that could be approached:
http://wiki.apache.org
Hello everyone,
As you may know Google is doing their Summer of Code program again this
summer. http://code.google.com/soc/
I would be interested in applying to do some work on FOP this summer.
Would you have suggestions about specific developments that would
greatly help improve FOP ?
I'm
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