Help regarding project

[Panks]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org> wrote:

> **
> On 12/18/2011 09:33 PM, Panks wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> This is Pankaj, I am a second year CS student at Indian Institute of
> Technology, Madras.
> I am interested in contributing to Calligra.
>
>  While going through last year (2011) gsoc idea page I found these ideas
> interesting:
> Project: PDF-Import and/or PDF-Export AND Integrate with Akonadi for
> Calligra Words
> and Project: PSD File import/export Support for Calligra Krita
>
>  I would like to work upon one or more(depends on time) of these ideas.
> But since I am new to KDE, I would like someone to mentor/help me along
> with the project.
> So, can someone please help me along with?
>
>  Credentials: I have knowledge of C++ and Qt.
>
>
> and hello Pankaj,
>
> I would be willing to mentor you on getting a PDF-Import filter for
> Calligra Words done. I am available in our irc-channel #calligra (on
> irc://irc.freenode.net/calligra - use e.g. the "Konversation" application
> to connect to IRC) as "sebsauer".
>
> First steps would be;
> 1. Build Calligra yourself from the sources. See
> http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building
> 2. Get a KDE git-account to commit work you do. See
> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_Contributor_Account
> 3. Get familar with the area where the work will happen. That is the
> filter-framework. We are going to write a filter-plugin that reads
> PDF-files using the poppler library and then generating OpenDocument ODF.
> The filter-framework will take care of all the things around including
> passing the resulting ODT-file on to Calligra Words so it's
> loaded+displayed and the user can edit+save.
>
> For point 3 you may like to have a look at;
> * in our sources at the Text-file importer located at
> calligra/filters/words/ascii/AsciiImport.cpp to have an idea how a filter
> looks like.
> * at the poppler-library. For that install libpoppler (if not already
> installed cause it's a pretty standard-library used by applications like
> Okular to display PDF-files). There look at the header-files to have an
> idea how the API looks like.
>
> Once those initial steps are done we would create an initial filter
> skeleton for the PDF-import filter. We could basically copy the AsciiFilter
> linked above over and 1) change the CMakeLists.txt to link against
> libpoppler and 2) change the desktop file so we take PDF-files as input and
> not text-files like the text-filter does and 3) start to use the
> libpoppler-API to evaluate the PDF-document.
>
> So much for the start :-)
>
>  *

*
First of all thanks a lot for mentoring this project. :-)
I am done with step 1 & 2 and in step 3 I am going through the code of
AsciiImport.cpp and simultaneous giving a look to some implementations of
poppler.


Pankaj
UG Student *|* Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Madras, Chennai, India
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