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.