GSoC 2013 Ideas
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Ideas for GSOC 2013 :
- Compliance -- turn the compiler up to all warnings are bugs. Make all warnings go away. In C++ every "warning" means "it will not work on a class of popular systems, or will work but give bad data". Fix them.
- generally make it easier for somebody to jump in quickly to try out stuff on your software, either by removing the the obstacles : the unfriendly build issues, write some simple demos/guides (but GSOC cannot cover documentation).
- "export to true web enabled PDF" option, that is create lightweight PDFs.
If someone wants to look into this, they would do well to check out this page: Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes, which gives a fair amount of data on which factors reduce PDF size, as far as images are concerned. Someone might find a way to use this information to make for some simpler process – there are too many settings right now I think.
- More and better preview options, for example:
- Font preview in all font-related dialogs.
- Speed up Scribus's performance by displaying grey lines instead of rendering text when the zoom factor is below a certain threshold.
- Let Scribus only update the display/layout of the selected page(s) instead of the whole document when changes have been made, even if those changes affect other parts of a document. This will improve performance with large documents.
- Implement a tool to easily play with, set and save settings for Type Colour.
- RTF import and export (export for Story Editor only), perhaps using an external library.
- Improve XPress Tag and InDesign/InCopy Snippet import and add XPress Tag as well ID/IC Snippet export.
- Implement Xtag import and export.
- Implement XML/SLA source code editor (à la Inkscape or InDesign).
- Add more scripting languages (JavaScript, Ruby ...) to Scripter2.
- Create a basic MS Publisher importer using libmspub.
- Implement XPS export.
- Create better import of CorelDraw files using libcdr.
- Create a MS Visio importer using libvisio.
- Create an importer for special pattern formats (AI, EPS, PAT (Photoshop), SOH, SOB).
- Implement Master Documents.
- Rewrite the Style Manager.
- Rewrite the Text Filter so it reflects Scribus's current text formatting capabilities.
- Improve the tables tool.
- Improve ODT and SXW import to reflect Scribus's new features like foot-/endnotes etc.
- Improve and update the ODG and SXD import.
- Enable style creation from text selection (similar to master page creation from existing page).