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List:       fop-dev
Subject:    Re: Google Summer of Code
From:       Craig Ringer <ringerc () ringerc ! id ! au>
Date:       2012-03-06 0:16:11
Message-ID: 4F55574B.3070002 () ringerc ! id ! au
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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, nice and self contained, 
great for someone who knows PDFBox and wants to learn fop's codebase);

- CID fonts in PostScript (good for someone who knows PS and fonts, not 
necessarily XSL-FO so much);

- Using automatic +- kerning, +- tracking *and* +- horizontal type 
scaling adjustment to better auto-fit text, involving support for 
font-stretch property. This touches on layout so it may not be practical 
for a 1st fop project, but may not be too bad since fop already adjusts 
tracking when justifying text. The key interest points would be 
*negative* tracking, kerning and (if nothing else works) glyph-scaling 
for tighter type-fitting where it's not desirable to break to a new line 
due to widow/orphan policy or because it'd create large holes. This is 
particularly important when long unbreakable words must fit a fixed 
width space.

- PDF/X-1a with CMYK;

- 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 font, profile, and 
image resources. I'm working on this one at the moment, but slowly and 
only amid other projects.

--
Craig Ringer
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