All to Pixmap server

[Sven Langkamp]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi there
>
> For those who don't know me my name is Alex Fiestas (afiestas), I have
> been KDE developer for 2/3 years and so far I have work on BlueDevil
> (Bluetooth), Kamoso (video), libsolid and I'm currently the manager of the
> Solid community.
>
> I have been asked to develop a small server which will convert the most
> popular documents into pixmaps so they can be rendered quickly anywhere,
> I'm going to start the basic structure today but before I start with the
> document processing I'd like to ask you for advice :p
>
> This is more or less what I know and what I have thought:
>
> Requirements:
> The server must be as fast as possible and reliable, so we must be prepare
> to handle crashes. The resulted document should be something standard such
> PNG or JPG.
>
> Faster way I saw:
> I have done some PoC using calligraconverter as base, the faster way I
> found without messing too much with Calligra internals is to use the
> private classes from each Calligra app to get the QWidget that will end
> rendering the page or the document, and then use QWidget::render to paint
> everything into a QPixmap.
>

There is also the okular odp converter that does something like that,
although currently only for odp files.
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