Re: [Tcllib-devel] Tcl GSoC 2011 - Ideas anyone ?

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

On 3/11/2011 12:33 AM, Lars Hellström wrote:
> Kevin Walzer skrev 2011-03-11 02.26:
>> 2. Complete the PDF-generation projects from the past couple of summers,
>> hook them up to native printing dialogs on each platform, and get the
>> whole package into the core (or at least as a visible extension, I have
>> no clue where the code currently exists). I can offer Mac-specific
>> printer dialog code here:
>> http://tk-components.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tk-components/cocoaprint/.
>
> I haven't kept up-to-date with these developments, but generally, how do
> these projects stand on the axis of doing-stuff-themselves vs.
> relying-on-external-libraries (of which some are probably
> platform-specific)? A print dialog surely introduces some platform
> dependence, but what about the content generation parts? How much is tied
> into Tk, and how much can be used without?
>
> For what it's worth, I've been doing some (pure-Tcl, though unpublished)
> work on parsing TrueType/OpenType files, particularly to the end of

Does this work fit under
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/28085
	(GSoC Idea: Computational geometry for glyph outlines)

or would that be a different but related idea ?

> dumping metric and outline data, but I expect a lot of the effort could be
> reused in a PDF generation context. Font handling is otherwise likely to
> be an obstacle if going the doing-stuff-yourself route.

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