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
