GSoC 2011

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 20 March 2011 Mar, Jain Basil Aliyas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am Jain Basil Aliyas, a computer science engineering student from India. I
> am interested in working on the idea* Import/Export to/from PDF* in Calligra
> KWords. (
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_PDF-Import_and.2For_PDF-Export
> )
> 
> I'd like to share my contributions in free software development; I am one
> among the core development team of Scribus, the open source DTP software,
> and I participated in Google Summer of Code 2010 with Pardus Project. In
> GSoC 2011, I developed a* snapshot and monitoring tool for KDE4
> settings*with GitPython as backend.
> 
> In scribus, I've developed import filters for quark xpress xtg file, and
> adobe indesign idml package (these are available in scribus 1.5 svn ).
> 
> I've my calligra build system ready, and am trying to draft a proposal for
> this project. I'd like to get suggestions from Calligra Developers so that I
> can make this work more exciting.

Hi Jain! The first thing to do is build calligra, of course :-). The mentor for this project is not around atm, he's on holiday but should be back shortly. As I answered Diego (who is interested in the same idea), the first thing is to investigate the poppler library. The old 1.6 code used xpdf, but that was never a sustainable solution.

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org