5 - Add scalar/mmap to iolayer
6 - Add close() code to iolayer for fakeseek sources.
7 - Merge callback interface into iolayer
8 - Add iolayer reading/writing for gif
10 - Implment the maxread threshold (Indicates how much can
11 be read from a source before it stops reading from its
12 underlying source. For making sure only the relevant
13 data is read from a socket for example.
16 Enhanched internal structure:
18 MultiImage & metadata support:
19 - Figure what interface should be between C and perl?
20 - How to store data in the C interface for tags/metadata?
21 Support tiff's madness, i.e. tags and options.
22 - Error handling, make a general i_errstr object and arrange
23 such that each image has an i_errstr object to hold its
25 - SEE design/represent.txt for proposed new structure and
26 interface design that takes these factors into account.
27 - define common i_* tags for specifying attribute common among images
28 like spatial resolution (implement for other image types, especially
32 - Add mng support, pcx and aalib support.
34 - Transforms, interpolated multidimensional lookup tables.
35 Usefull for CMYK <-> RGB table lookup.
37 - Finish antialiased filled polygon function.
39 - advanced font layout (spacing, kerning, alignment) (Artur?)
41 - ways to check if characters are present in a font, eg. checking if
44 - font synthesis - synthesize a bold or slanted font from a normal font
45 (or even from an existing bold or slanted font)
47 - utf8 support for text output
48 (available for freetype2)
50 - image rotation, 3 ways of doing rotation:
51 - rotation by shearing, which produces makes lengths in the image larger,
53 (2 of the 3 have been done)
55 - read_multi() needs to handle other multi-image types, such as TIFF
56 (probably the most common)
58 - compose channels - build a new image based on channels from several
66 - Make sure everything is doable with the OO interface
67 i_flood_fill() for example.
69 - Compile with memory debugging enabled and fix all leaks
71 - dynaload.c is strongly tied to perl
73 - Add mycalloc() memory allocation wrappers.
75 - should we overload <=> or cmp for Imager::Color objects?
76 too many worms, leave it out
78 - should the interlace option for reading raw images have
79 symbolic names in the OO interface?
81 - improve consistency in the interfaces, both in trying to use named
82 parameters where possible but also in using consistent names, eg.
83 (tx, ty) vs (left, top) in rubthrough() vs paste(). Do we want a (simple)
84 standard for this (suggested names)? Remember to preserve the old
85 interface where possible.
87 Format specific issues:
88 - provide patches for libgif and libungif that fix their bugs
89 and give a useful extension interface. Probe for the
90 installation of the patches in Makefile.PL to let gif.c
91 know what features it can use.
93 - Add options for pnm writer to save in any of the p1..P6
94 formats. Even if the input has 1 channel, write 3 and such
95 cases. Also allow ascii mode. Need to be able to write
96 pbm images which needs ties to the quantization code.
98 - save paletted images as paletted where that's supported. Done
99 for gif/tga. Not done for png/tiff yet.
101 - read other format paletted images as paletted images. This has
102 been done for gif/tga formats but not for tiff/png.
105 - Add to the documentation
107 - sample code and Imager/Samples.pod describing them
108 - Imager/Cookbook.pod
109 - modify the .pm files to put pod describing a function close to the
111 - Write a guide to installing the helper libraries
112 - Go through the entire project and add comments in pod
113 so doco.perl can be used to read them.