fop/status.xml

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<status>

  <developers>
  <!-- in strict alphabetical order -->
  <person name="Bertrand Delacretaz" email="bdelacretaz@apache.org" id="BD"/>
  <person name="Christian Geisert" email="chrisg@apache.org" id="CG"/>
  <person name="Karen Lease" email="klease@apache.org" id="KL"/>
  <person name="Keiron Liddle" email="keiron@apache.org" id="KLL"/>
  <person name="Jeremias Maerki" email="jeremias@apache.org" id="JM"/>
  <person name="Joerg Pietschmann" email="pietsch@apache.org" id="JP"/>
  <person name="Arved Sandstrom" email="arved@apache.org" id="AS"/>
  <person name="Peter B. West" email="pbwest@apache.org" id="PBW"/>

<!--
inactive??
  <person name="Kelly Campbell" email="kellyc@apache.org" id="KC"/>
  <person name="Steven Coffman" email="gears@apache.org" id="SC"/>
  <person name="Tore Engvig" email="tore@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Stanislav Gorkhover" email="stanislav@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Fotis Jannidis" email="fotis@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Jordan Naftolin" email="jordan@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Eric Schaeffer" email="eschaeffer@apache.org" id=""/>
  <person name="Art Welch" email="artw@apache.org" id=""/>
-->
    <person name="Volunteer needed"   email="fop-dev@xml.apache.org" id="open"/>
  </developers>

  <todo>
   <actions priority="high">
    <action context="code" dev="KL">
      get simple pagination working
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      sort out page sequence details
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      complete resolving id areas
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      add the pdf side part of bookmark extension
    </action>

    <action context="code" dev="open">
      implement the caching mechanism to store pages
      when a page contains a forward reference that has not been
      resolved then we need to be able to save the page contents to
      disk to save memory
    </action>

   </actions>

   <actions priority="medium">
    <action context="design" dev="open">
     Design FOP API interfaces.
    </action>
    <action context="design" dev="open">
     Integrate with Jakarta Avalon: logging, configuration, URI resolver,
     component management, image caching etc.
    </action>
   </actions>

   <actions priority="low">
    <action context="design" dev="open">
      Investigate using form XObject for repeated areas
      such as static and table header/footer only when the
      area does not change.
    </action>
    <action context="code" dev="open">
      Investigate using form XObject for svg images
      this can make the svg cacheable in the pdf doc
    </action>
   </actions>

  </todo>

  <changes>
   <release version="?" date="2002">
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="build">
      Improve build process for more flexibility when external jars change.
      Changed to use -projecthelp option from Ant 1.5 instead of "usage" target.
    </action>
    <action dev="JM" type="update" context="build">
      Updated Avalon Framework JAR (with Log4J support, Bug 11274)
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="docs"
            due-to="Victor Mote" due-to-email="vic@outfitr.com">
      Copies across overview for javadocs build.
      chmod antRun in build.sh.
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Kevin O'Neill" due-to-email="kevin@rocketred.com.au">
      Minor patch for the TTFReader to remove an unreachable statement
      compiler warning
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Torsten Erler" due-to-email="erlto@net-linx.de">
      workaround for eps files that have invalid float bounding box values
      float values are rounded off according to the spec the
      %%HiResBoundingBox should be used instead for floating position
      values
    </action>
    <action dev="JP" type="update" context="code">
      Simplified ASCII85Filter computation, thereby hopefully
      working around JVM bugs
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="docs"
            due-to="Cyril Rognon" due-to-email="crognon@objectiva.fr">
      added understanding layout manager document
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="docs"
            due-to="Peter Kullmann" due-to-email="p.kullmann@arenae.ch">
      fixed master-name and a test setup problem
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      moved embed font info into the render.pdf package
      reduced dependancy on Configuration
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"
            due-to="Kevin O'Neill" due-to-email="kevin@rocketred.com.au">
      separated the specific PDFRender functionality from the CTM class
      and created a small utility class for the renderer to use
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      FontState only used for calculations,
      stores font name and size on area tree
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Improved PDFTextPainter to handle different text better
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Applied root element viewBox transform for svg to pdf transcoder
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      image test for formats, viewport and scaling
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code"> 
      added various SVG to PDF tests for trancoder
      and including in fo
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Implemented viewport and scaling for images
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code"> 
      Implemented viewport and scaling for instream svg
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Removed old area tree
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Optimised gstate usage in pdf files to minimize file size
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Optimised function usage, reuses old functions in pdf files
      to minimize file size
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Added transparancy to pdf
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Outputs images immediately to the stream, also drops
      reference to image data
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Added resource context for pattern resources
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="build">
      Added pdf transcoder build target
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Made PDF streams externally configured
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Fixed svg linking in pdf, works with viewbox and url
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Start to mif implementation with new structure handlers
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      New structure handler for structure type documents, rtf, mif
      and for better layout processing.
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Changed extensions to allow for external xml
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      Can have a default element mapping for extensions
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      New area tree model
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="add" context="code">
      New renderer model
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Added handlers for xml in renderer
    </action> 
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      svg now in an xml handler, FOP can be used without batik
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="build">
      Removed old xerces and xalan
    </action>
    <action dev="" type="update" context="code">
      Updated to use Jaxp
    </action>
    <action dev="" type="update" context="code">
        Updated to use new avalon framework logger
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Redid image handling so it can use a cache and synchronizes properly
      only on the current image while loading
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
      Changed bookmark extension, now requires a wrapping element bookmark
    </action>
    <action dev="KL" type="add" context="code">
      New layout system using layout managers
    </action>
    <action dev="KLL" type="update" context="code">
     Changed area tree xml format to match the area tree hierarchy
    </action>

   </release>
  </changes>

</status>