[Okular-devel] SoC Ideas => proposal : Okular arranger for printing

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge 06 Abril 2008, Jonathan-David SCHRODER va escriure:
> Hi
> my name is Jonathan-david Schröder
> 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.
> 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.
>
> Below is just a quick idea of my proposal which actually is a mix of two
> SoC ideas from
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas
> .
>
> *---------- beginning of short proposal ---------------------*
> 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
> a proposal on
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#
>KDE-Print. This proposal could be merged with that one :
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#
>.28Multiple.29_image_printing_application. 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...).
>
> Here is how I would see things :
>
> Okular ( http://okular.kde.org/ ), 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...).
>
> For that new part of Okular to create, one should be able to choose that
> the final job be sent to the printer as:
> - one big job with the total number of pages,
> - or as a decomposed number of job reflecting the nature of the pages (ie :
> in the queue you would see :
> "myOdtDocument.odt [pages 1-3] [OkularArranger-elem1/3]" ;
> "specialPicture.png [OkularArranger-elem2/3]" ;
> "veryBigPictureFittingOn2Pages.png [2 pages] [OkularArranger-elem3/3]" ;
> and so on.
> *-------- end of short proposal -------------------*
>
> 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 : asranie at fryx.ch but I receive emails back telling me
> that the email id does not exist...).
>
> Would you accept to tell me what you think of my proposal and what I should
> refine it... ?

Personally i think that does not belong into Okular but somewhere inside 
kdelibs, hopefully into a reborn kdeprint library.

> Should I take the time to talk about that proposal more in depth a mentor
> as Google recommended it for the remaining days ?

As far as i know GSoC limit is tomorrow, so you should add the proposal as 
soon as possible.

> Would you know someone that would accept to mentor me for this ?

Maybe someone that has done printing work lately into KDE like John Layt.

Albert