| Here's the plan as of March 21: | 
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 | 	- Finish glib and qobject wrappers and get rid of the 80 | 
 | 	  header files that current constitute the poppler public API. | 
 | 	  Make sure the APIs are usable for kpdf and evince and other | 
 | 	  tools that use poppler (thumbnailers, metadata plugins | 
 | 	  etc.). | 
 |  | 
 | 	- Make the cairo backend feature complete and optimize the | 
 | 	  heck out of it. | 
 |  | 
 | 	- Investigate better (that is, normal) text selection. | 
 |  | 
 | 	- Use PDF font descriptors to create an FcPattern. | 
 |  | 
 | Convert to use as much existing infra-structure as possible: | 
 | 	- drop t1lib entirely | 
 | 	- use fontconfig | 
 | 	- dont use /etc/xpdf.rc, add abstraction that can work with | 
 | 	  GNOME and KDE configuration systems (GConf and ?) | 
 | 	- improve cairo backend | 
 | 	- use jasper for jpeg2000 decoding? | 
 | 	- use littlecms for color management? | 
 | 	- use libtiff for ccitt decoding? | 
 |  | 
 | Performance: | 
 | 	- Add simle performance benchmark that takes a pdf and renders | 
 | 	  every page 100 times or so.  Start keeping track of | 
 | 	  performance. | 
 | 	- make color space conversion stuff more sane (right now we | 
 | 	  hack around some of it in the cairo backend) | 
 | 	- move away from getChar to a more read(2) like interface | 
 |  | 
 | Done: | 
 | 	- rename GString etc in goo lib to make it more glib friendly | 
 | 	- make splash optional | 
 |  | 
 | 	- Install poppler-splash.pc and poppler-cairo.pc to indicate | 
 | 	  available backends.  Alternatively, just hide the backend | 
 | 	  choice from the application.  This is done now, but for this | 
 | 	  to work properly, we really need multiple .so's. | 
 |  | 
 | 	  [ This will go away again once we get the wrappers done. ] | 
 |  | 
 | Jeff Muizelaar's TODO: | 
 | 	Short Term: | 
 | 	- factor out some of the color conversion code from CairoOutputDev and ArthurOutputDev. | 
 | 	- fix patterned text fills. | 
 | 	Long Term: | 
 | 	- use cairo glyph cache for type3 fonts. | 
 | 	- try to use cairo pattern support. |