Hi Batik Devs, I want to participate as a student in the GSoC 2008 and help improve batik. I found the different projects from Apache Software Foundation, but couldn't find anything on batik. Thus, I want to propose a project on which I'm willing to contribute. Hope this is the right place to propose the project idea.
Batik is a very useful project and I've used the SVG generator (SVGGraphics2D) for a project on creating SVG files. I would like to contribute to the project and give back to batik. The following is the idea that I have in mind: Project name: batik-reports Description: Batik has a great SVG generator and parser. Report generation and DTP is a common work that people do with computers. SVG with its XML format has an advantage in this field. The project proposes easy API to connect tags and fields with userdatabase. We could create an SVG image in any image editor. This image can be imported using the SVG parser in batik and we could connect the image to that database and generate new SVG files with the changes data coming from the database. For the database we could use derby or other database through JDBC. The application of this project could be vast and could help a lot of DTP jobs. I had recently done something similar for a horse racing book printing project. The company for whom I had done the project had data and images about horses and races which it wanted to print into books. These books were printed daily after each race and would help calculate the standing and bet ratings on each horse. All the data comes from a database and an SVG file is created that can be directly printed. Would like to hear more from batik developers on the idea of the project and how I could help improve the idea!! -- Regards, Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE
