Hi all.
I just wanted to confirm that Santosh's description of the current
limitations of the PDF rendering engine are accurate.
Regarding the GSOC project: As the principal developer of the current
PDF rendering I'd also be happy to share insights on PDF rendering. Let
me know if I can do anything to help.
Best Regards,
Volker
Am 04.03.2012 07:30, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara:
On 03/03/2012 10:25 PM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:
Here i have a question that at this moment is there any developer of
developer group is working on this issue? if yes then i want to join with
him.
I had discussed this with Pediapress developers in the past. I
started a project many months back to develop a general purpose PDF
rendering library for complex scripts and I had announced it here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002198.html
And I have an online version based on the code in development
http://silpa.org.in/Render. It can create PDFs from Bengali wiki pages
and possibly most of the scripts that we support. The text rendering
engine used is Pango. This is my petproject and 2-3 people joined me,
but recently it is inactive in development since we are not getting
free time. The library require lot of work to reach a reasonably
usable state. Then it require good amount of effort to integrate with
collection extension.
The project is hosted at https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib
and available in Debian.
Thanks
Santhosh
Santhosh, it looks like Nasir might be interested in working on this as
a Google Summer of Code project:
... Is [it] possible to apply GSoC for this issue.
If this is the case, Santhosh, would you be interested in possibly
mentoring Nasir?
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