I am currently learning C++ programming (from Accelerated C++). There is a feature that I would like to implement, but I would like some advice as to 1) what I need to know in order to implement it, 2) is it feasible? 3) would this be useful to others?
Here is the feature: The user could select a pdf, select a page, and then that page would be visible in LyX. The user could then draw a rectangle on that pdf page that would outline the part of that pdf page that he would like to insert into his lyx document. I think the LaTeX code is not that complicated. It would just use the bounding box or viewport option of the includegraphics command. Also, I do not think this falls under the category of "stop requesting that LyX includes a graphics editor" because it would not even need to access or edit the image, except to display the pdf page. Why do I think this would be a good feature? I see too often documents (both papers and especially beamer presentations) that would like to put in a table from another pdf, but they do so by taking a screen shot, which ends up looking quite ugly because its a bitmap. Any advice would be helpful. Thank you, Xu
