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% faster merging PDFs than PDFBox) 5) Widgets for PDF generation (Text, Tables …) as there seems to be some demand in using PDFBox for generation of PDFs from scratch although I think that one could use e.g FOP for that purpose. 6) Documentation. With kind regards Maruan Sahyoun Am 19.03.2012 um 07:45 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler: > 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.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-6, >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-9) > Good idea, but complicated, as some of the feature you would need aren't yet > implemented. > >> - Other one is enhancing features of PDF reader and zooming features, >> page display features, bookmark navigator, page thumbnail viewer can be >> very much useful. Since I have previous experience in awt, swing and >> java2d, it will be easy for me. > I like this idea. It would be a nice feature. > >> There might be several other tasks which are important than this. So all of >> you are welcome, to reply with good ideas. > Yes there are a lot things to do, probably someone else might come up with a > wish? > >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:01 PM, mehdi houshmand<med1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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<andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: >>>> 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 if it's ok? It seems like such a waste >>>>> to have an interested applicant but no mentor... >>>> >>>> I'm not an GSoC expert but that sounds good to me. You may double check >>> with >>>> the dev-community, but IMHO it's not necessary. >>>> I'm glad that you volunteer to help us, thanks in advance. I'll try to >>> help >>>> as much as I can. >>>> > <SNIP> > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler
