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
29 TIFF) (Spatial resolution is supported for all types that support
30 it - are there any other common properties we can add?)
31 - implement the i_incomplete tag for other formats
34 - Add mng support, pcx and aalib support.
35 - Windows icon files (.ico)
37 - photoshop files (I think I've seen docs)
40 - WMF (extract bitmap data on read)
41 - gzip or bzip2 compressed raw
42 - postscript for output
44 - Transforms, interpolated multidimensional lookup tables.
45 Usefull for CMYK <-> RGB table lookup.
47 - advanced font layout (spacing, kerning, alignment) (Artur?)
49 - ways to check if characters are present in a font, eg. checking if
52 - font synthesis - synthesize a bold or slanted font from a normal font
53 (or even from an existing bold or slanted font)
55 - utf8 support for text output
56 (available for freetype2)
58 - image rotation, 3 ways of doing rotation:
59 - rotation by shearing, which produces makes lengths in the image larger,
61 (2 of the 3 have been done)
63 - read_multi() needs to handle other multi-image types, such as TIFF
64 (probably the most common)
66 - write_multi() to save other multi-image types, especially TIFF
68 - compose channels - build a new image based on channels from several
76 - Make sure everything is doable with the OO interface
77 i_flood_fill() for example.
79 - Compile with memory debugging enabled and fix all leaks
81 - dynaload.c is strongly tied to perl
83 - Add mycalloc() memory allocation wrappers.
85 - should we overload <=> or cmp for Imager::Color objects?
86 too many worms, leave it out
88 - should the interlace option for reading raw images have
89 symbolic names in the OO interface?
91 - improve consistency in the interfaces, both in trying to use named
92 parameters where possible but also in using consistent names, eg.
93 (tx, ty) vs (left, top) in rubthrough() vs paste(). Do we want a (simple)
94 standard for this (suggested names)? Remember to preserve the old
95 interface where possible.
97 Format specific issues:
98 - provide patches for libgif and libungif that fix their bugs
99 and give a useful extension interface. Probe for the
100 installation of the patches in Makefile.PL to let gif.c
101 know what features it can use.
103 - Add options for pnm writer to save in any of the p1..P6
104 formats. Even if the input has 1 channel, write 3 and such
105 cases. Also allow ascii mode. Need to be able to write
106 pbm images which needs ties to the quantization code.
108 - save paletted images as paletted where that's supported. Done
109 for gif/tga/bmp/tiff. Not done for png yet.
111 - read other format paletted images as paletted images. This has
112 been done for gif/tga/bmp/tiff formats but not for png.
114 - read/write 16-bit/sample images as such for tiff
116 - read more metadata from images, esp tiff tags, EXIF format information
120 - Add to the documentation
122 - sample code and Imager/Samples.pod describing them
123 - Imager/Cookbook.pod
124 - modify the .pm files to put pod describing a function close to the
126 - Write a guide to installing the helper libraries
127 - Go through the entire project and add comments in pod
128 so doco.perl can be used to read them.
129 - see the IRC log in design/doclayout.txt