Hi<br>my name is Jonathan-david Schröder<br>I have taken some time to read the kde summer of code ideas page and I would like to apply for a SoC related to Kde printing and Okular.<br>I am looking for your advising me on that proposal. If my proposal is relevant enough, I am looking for a mentor to talk to.<br>
<br>Below is just a quick idea of my proposal which actually is a mix of two SoC ideas from <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas</a> .<br>
<br><b>---------- beginning of short proposal ---------------------</b><br>I'd be interested to work as a SoC on the piece of software that you
and your friend have been working on, and for which you submitted<br>a proposal on <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#KDE-Print" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#KDE-Print</a> .<br>
This proposal could be merged with that one : <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#.28Multiple.29_image_printing_application" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#.28Multiple.29_image_printing_application</a>
. In the latter, a person proposes that it be possible to arrange
graphics over pages before printing (one or more graphics fitting on
one page, and also, graphics fitting/expanded over several pages for
example...).<br>
<br>Here is how I would see things :<br><br>Okular ( <a href="http://okular.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://okular.kde.org/</a>
), which can display several files types including PDF, could be
used/extended to be the program that receives/is run to receive all the
pages sent to some special pseudo-printer. The name of this
pseudo-printer could be "Okular graphics arranger". Choosing to send
pages to this pseudo-printer which would actually send the pages to
Okular, would bedone in the already present printer choice drop-down
menu of the KDE printing dialog (the one on which we can choose the
number of pages, collating etc...).<br>
<br>For that new part of Okular to create, one should be able to choose that the final job be sent to the printer as:<br>- one big job with the total number of pages,<br>- or as a decomposed number of job reflecting the nature of the pages (ie : in the queue you would see :<br>
"myOdtDocument.odt [pages 1-3] [OkularArranger-elem1/3]" ;<br>"specialPicture.png [OkularArranger-elem2/3]" ;<br>"veryBigPictureFittingOn2Pages<div style="margin-left: 80px;">.png [2 pages] [OkularArranger-elem3/3]" ;<br>
and so on.<br></div><b>-------- end of short proposal -------------------</b><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br></div>Looking around the text pointed by the two URLs written in the proposal above, I cannot make out any correct mentor name or e-mail adress (I have one e-mail adress : <span><span></span>asranie@fryx.ch but I receive emails back telling me that the email id does not exist...).<br>
</span><br>Would you accept to tell me what you think of my proposal and what I should refine it... ?<br>Should I take the time to talk about that proposal more in depth a mentor as Google recommended it for the remaining days ?<br>
Would you know someone that would accept to mentor me for this ?<br><br>As to me :<br>I'm 20, french and I live near Versailles (near Paris). I'm in 3rd year of information technology studies (the school's URL is <a href="http://www.ece.fr" target="_blank">www.ece.fr</a> ). I think that I will take a major in embedded systems next year.<br>
I know C,C++, ActionScript and Python. I'm a regular Blender user. I've worked with the following libraries : C:BSD sockets, Python:Blender (Game and some normal Blender programming), Python:Qt4 (... but I used QtDesigner, so I don't know the API well), C:GTK+, C:GooCanvas, C:Allegro, Flash 5/MX, Python:xml.minidom to parse SVG.<br>
<br>As far as KDE and open-source work is concerned, I have never contributed to KDE yet but I use KDE every day on my laptop. I only submitted some bug reports for Blender3d. I have worked for 3 student projects published over public SVN repositories, with GPL Licenses at Google Code and tuxfamily.<br>
<br>I could spend July & August working on the SoC.<br>I wish I could have a 1 week break in the middle.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Jonathan<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.jaxtr.com/myselfhimself" target="_blank">http://www.jaxtr.com/myselfhimself</a>