Laidout Roadmap
Things to do before the next release. This is a very rough draft of a roadmap, and is by no means the final word.Version 0.094 -- | ||
| • | Tool scripting | |
| • | Merge EpsData with normal images | |
| • | Externally rendered objects, similar to Scribus render frames | |
| • | Examine and improve ease of use of import images dialog, particularly for previewing | |
| • | In image properties dialog, have the popup list of potential previews | |
| • | Net imposition interactive unwrapper, via optional opengl Polyptych | |
| • | Net imposition build net interface | |
| (done) | need partial Laidout import | |
| (done) | should probably put laidout stuff in its own namespace, just to be polite | |
| • | PathInterface subpaths for hole making should work | |
| • | Shortcuts editor dialog | |
| • | Fix object bleeding across pages for signatures and nets | |
| • | double click on group should change selection area to group contents? | |
| • | Moving selected things in group contents does not update group bounds | |
| • | should not be able to select both group and group contents at same time | |
| • | Masking, clip paths and/or softmask | |
| • | impose-only mode should allow access to all imposition types | |
| • | Signature editor needs option to preview pages while folding | |
| • | Signature editor: detect non staplable binding edge, show red rather than green | |
| • | When importing from an image list file, should be able to say if and when to auto-make previews | |
| • | Tools should remember their settings | |
| (done) | Optimize pdf export to not duplicate large images | |
| • | Cloning | |
| • | SpreadEditor: insert blanks, delete pages, the other right click menu options | |
| • | SpreadEditor: be able to eject a page into limbo, in addition to swap and slide | |
| • | SpreadEditor: working with >100 image heavy pages does strange hangs, and starts really slow. Fix! | |
| • | Soup up the color box so one can recall previous colors, and/or integration with palette window | |
| (done) | Color sliders, when double clicking on color box | |
| • | implement scale pages to new imposition when reimposing | |
| • | drag-n-drop text to and from the various text edits (mainly a Laxkit todo) | |
| • | drag-n-drop with system, like drag images into viewwindow from an external file browser | |
Version 0.095 -- | ||
| • | Object and resource tags | |
| • | Scribus import should try to apply the Scribus layout correctly, at least for 2 page spreads | |
| • | Scribus import should do something meaningful with original Scribus page bleed values | |
| • | fix object transform handles for really small objects (handles should still be accessible) | |
| • | Collect for out | |
| • | Optimize pdf export to rescale to target dpi, and compress image data | |
| • | Clean up project load/save internals and dialogs | |
| • | Clean up patch controls | |
Version 0.1 -- | ||
| • | First and foremost, need copious testing by people who are not me. | |
| • | Implement poor man's multi-contact interface for all appropriate interfaces | |
| • | undo/redo | |
| • | Full internationalization support in window controls for input and output, including left, right. pango? | |
| • | Basic infrastructure for most things (except text) should be in place. | |
| • | Must be Stable, not merely "Stable" | |
| • | Creep management controls | |
| • | Construct an adequate command core, so that no X connection necessary for batch processing | |
| • | Improve open from template to be able to use names (defined in a file), not just filenames | |
| • | perhaps have image open window pane for main split window? drag and drop in images? that would be AWESOME | |
| • | Change cursor or otherwise indicate what will happen as mouse moves around | |
| • | Should have option to print/see or not print/see big, preview, or no images, per image | |
| • | When adjusting things with the object tool, must have option to be temporarily a little transparent | |
| • | All the pdf 1.4 group combine properties, like most importantly transparency | |
| • | Configurable icon panel/menu system, make the button box actually function | |
| • | Linear (including curvilinear) guides | |
| • | Seriously optimize the whole ColorPatch/ImagePatchData stuff | |
| • | Have imagepatch be a transform you can apply to any object | |
| • | Allow objects to have any number of various kinds of transforms applied to it | |
| • | Some sort of basic scripting infrastructure allowing easy addition of other scripting language plugins. Swig? | |
| • | Plugin infrastructure should be in place: add objects, panes, commands, interfaces, resources, command-line-options? | |
| • | allow for easy method for runaround area determination | |
| • | Full color management implemented, with up to at least 16 bit per channel color | |
| • | Resource manager/style edit window | |
| • | a real PrintDialog that can configure itself based on printer info | |
| • | non-hacky new document box that can retrieve printer capabilities, and adjust accordingly (ie grok ppds) | |
| • | all things must define their styledefs | |
| • | Low level tree editor, akin to the xml editor in inkscape | |
| • | make it easy to add/remove/prioritize/replace import/export filters | |
| • | PDF in? | |
| • | support for the svg filters? | |
| • | Provide some kind of visual feedback while doing lengthy operations | |
| • | Improve and/or make new logo and splash image, and generate icons from a laidout doc | |
| • | Somehow combine the ViewWindow and SpreadEditor to optionally allow the sort of 'infinite scroll' | |
| • | Be able to interact with patches in a way reminiscent of Inkscape's node sculpting | |
| • | Object and page templates, aka master pages | |
| • | Pages with curved edges, to allow nets for shapes resulting from intersecting cylinders, for instance | |
| • | Optional Midi controller usage | |
| • | Able to select and transform nodes from different objects at the same time | |
| • | Color channel density control, to not overdo CMYK mix, for instance | |
| • | Allow accessing scribus image cache, or try to spin off a non project specific general image cache | |
| • | Backwards compatibility with previous Laidout versions, without extra utilities, starting with 0.1 | |
| • | update french and spanish translations, if possible | |
| • | Paper sizes should be translated strings | |
Version 0.2 -- | ||
| • | Full multi-contact, blob and pressure sensitive touch with tuio,touchlib(?). See www.nuigroup.com/touchlib for diy surfaces | |
| • | partial Laidout export | |
| • | Figure out best way to expose laidout functions to other program's scripters (ie inkscape and scribus) | |
| • | Bezier color patch freeform, rather than just grid. | |
| • | The other Postscript/Pdf gradients?: Triangle strip and Triangle Mesh | |
| • | Possibly allow pure function gradients, and redefining the functions for the other gradients.. | |
| • | Freehand drawing with tablet support | |
| • | Maybe bez part of path interface should have segment move like inkscape | |
| • | Somehow be able to do simulated add-ins/foldouts from within any page of an imposition | |
| • | use any path as a kind of tab stop | |
| • | Text for god's sake!! This means at least a basic line breaker, | |
| • | Numbered lists | |
| • | Mixed left/right text in text streams | |
| • | Tables | |
| • | Optional multi-key shortcuts? | |
| • | hanging punctuation | |
| • | Automatic table of contents | |
| • | Bibliography | |
| • | Footnotes | |
| • | auto track chapter/section | |
| • | Automatic, yet overrideable hyphenation | |
| • | layout inside anything that provides an 'area' and runaround facility. | |
| • | Finally decide on a real rendering backend: cairo? antigrain? antigrain/freetype/pango? graphite? | |
| • | GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick plugin or integration: benefits: a gazillion file formats, including EPS, and color profiles Imlib chokes on really big image files, whereas this would not | |
| • | Would be nice to have tex/latex text and equation reader | |
| • | Would be nice to be able to handle metapost/metafun sort of things | |
| • | Would be nice to be able to handle lilypond sort of things | |
| • | Load/save various gimp/inkscape/etc things like gradients, palettes, and paths, perhaps extract from/to xcf | |
| • | Maybe have ability to break apart and use parts of gimp.xcf/inkscape.svg/scribus.sla, and put them back in? | |
| • | Stream/Story editor, maybe html export from streameditor? | |
| • | Internal generic impositioner for ps files that follow the ps doc. structure guidelines->import ps to mysterydata, export those... | |
| • | for plain postscript, there's bitmask, but no transparency. maybe optionally do simulation with dithered bitmask | |
| • | Cooperate with photo programs like KPhotoalbum, f-spot | |
| • | Make nets cooperate with Hugin/Enblend: plugin for panorama projection to/from nets? | |
| • | Work and turn/work and tumble | |
| • | openoffice files import | |
| • | Uniconverter support | |
| • | Super import place tool, including recursive placement | |
| • | fore edge printing | |
| • | fore edge sculpting | |
| • | Vx support? | |
| • | Verse support? | |
| • | Content version control? | |
| • | dbus? | |
| • | Net/polyhedron layout 3-d previewer extra (maybe?? software BSP tree? opengl?) pdf 1.6 can embed rotatable 3-d | |
| • | Perhaps have animation support/mode, 1 page=1 frame or separate time slider and keyframes | |
| • | Akin to animation mode, have movie/sound objects available to html export, for instance? | |
| • | a FlexibleImposition for html/streamed output target? | |
| • | JDF,JTAPI support? | |
| • | Saveable undo stack(?) (see http://people.csail.mit.edu/sarasu/history/ for inspiration) | |
Version 1.0 -- | ||
| • | End world hunger | |
| • | Stabilize the biosphere without causing mass extinction | |
| • | Neutralize all nuclear waste | |
| • | Visit Pluto | |
| • | While i'm at it, I'd like a pony. | |
Old Releases | ||
Version 0.093 -- released 17 July 2012! | ||
| (done) | On canvas flip controls | |
| (done) | Align tool | |
| (done) | Nup tool | |
| (done) | Fully configurable shortcuts (editable through config file) | |
| (done) | PathInterface must be improved | |
Version 0.092 -- released 30 December 2011! | ||
| (done) | Debug enough to hopefully not be too embarrassing | |
| (done) | Actually implement path exporting. Make that path icon mean something this time! | |
| (done) | At bare minimum, path interface use should not cause a seg fault | |
| (done) | Fix broken paper tiling interface | |
| (done) | Ability to add custom printer marks | |
| (done) | Fix multi-object selection move when crossing page boundaries | |
| (done) | Gui for modifying Page Labels | |
| (done) | Scribus import must support master pages | |
| (done) | Scribus import/export should support PageRange <-> Section conversion on import | |
| (done) | Units, especially Allow changing units in rulers | |
| (done) | Add proper .desktop and application icons installation | |
| (done) | Use ~/.config/laidout, instead of ~/.laidout | |
| (done) | Implement wavefront obj file format in/out for polyhedra | |
| (done) | from laxkit: clear up focus handling which currently REALLY SUCKS especially when dialogs or menus are up (maybe done) | |
| (done) | from laxkit: clean up pop up menus which currently REALLY SUCK -> now deletes menus when clicking outside them | |
Version 0.091 -- released 13 November 2010! | ||
| (done) | Well, maybe done: Debug enough to not be too embarrassing | |
| (done) | impose-only mode, so as to allow easy plugin in access, to for instance do booklets inside scribus | |
| (done) | Do a poor man's multi-contact touch screen interface with 2 mice and Xinput2: object tool only, so far | |
| (done) | Images should maintain their aspect ratio by default when scaling | |
| (done) | Scribus import must make sure linked text and linked table mystery data behave properly on export | |
| (done) | Export PLAN files for podofoimpose | |
| (done) | Generic fold and trim imposition | |
| (done) | Be able to load imposition instances, a form of resource | |
| (done) | Import images as flow/centered within page margins, not within page outline | |
| (done) | Import images with alignment per page type into the page margin region | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: improvements: re-re-fix auto layout | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: load/ save many spread editor views with doc (including marker placement, other settings) | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: editor should allow changing working document | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: be able to change marks of many pages at once | |
Version 0.09 -- released 21 February 2010! | ||
| (done) | Test, test, test! from fresh install to print out, make booklet, portrait, landscape | |
| (done) | More libintl support, means finally adapting laxkit and laidout to utf8 internally, no small task! | |
| (done) | Add, delete, and rename limbos | |
| (done) | Load, save, add, delete paper groups | |
| (done) | Finish implementing project based setup, particularly being able to save a project, not just load one | |
| (done) | Use the freedesktop recommended ~/.recently-used (on laxkit's todo also) | |
| (done) | NetImposition needs to be able to import 3-d models such as from OFF files | |
| (done) | Debug net impositions!! | |
| (done) | Selected region out to image(s), regions optionally remembered (done via custom papergroups) | |
| (done) | be able to reimpose a document from gui and command (from command mostly works) | |
| (done) | Import(), Export(), NewDocument() commands | |
| (done) | Make commands actually available in the command prompt window | |
| (done) | command line option to pass in commands, like "import blah; reimpose box; export blah2" | |
| (done) | plain text edit window for notes/scripts/whatever save with project or doc or its own file | |
| (done) | Image and Color patches, gradients should allow transparent colors | |
| (done) | When importing, need infrastructure to preserve mystery data as possible, to be later exported back out | |
| (done) | Passepartout import | |
| (done) | (very, very partially, anyway) Svg import | |
| (done) | (very partially, anyway) Scribus import | |
| (done) | fix the memory hole (in papergroups?) | |
| (done) | fix the other memory hole (triggered by importing images?), something in paperinterface, too | |
| (done) | for some reason, podofobrowser doesn't like laidout produced pdfs, but they're fine with xpdf. huh! | |
| (done) | control-q quits now rather than plain 'q' | |
| (done) | from laxkit: Fix cut and paste from system clipboard | |
| (done) | mouse releasing grab when crossing window control boundaries, makes color box unusable. address this!!! | |
Version 0.08 -- released 15 September 2007! | ||
| (done) | Test, test, test! from fresh install to print out, make booklet, portrait, landscape | |
| (done) | fix hard to trace crash in importimages dialog for shift select range of files | |
| (done) | (sort of, load but not save) Finish implementing project based setup, especially when loading | |
| (done) | limbos should be selectable, and saved independently of windows | |
| (done) | Basic libintl support, latin-1 translations only! | |
| (done) | Paper tiler interface | |
| (done) | Zoom handles screw up viewer transform aspect. Fix it!! | |
| (done) | Fix linear/radial gradient editing when object is sheared | |
| (done) | Dialogs should remember their placements | |
| (done) | Standardize the import/export mechanism | |
| (done) | PDF out | |
| (done) | svg out | |
| (done) | Export all/current paper/paper range, by singles, page layout, or paper layout to any filter | |
| (done) | Export to various things from command line to allow batch processing | |
| (done) | Export as a Scribus document | |
| (done) | Print/export to images (via ghostscript) | |
| (done) | Find and fix the damn memory hole (at least it currently slowly eats memory rather than crashing) (fixed PageStyle mess up, now problem in viewwindow->curobj probably) | |
Version 0.07 -- released 2 June 2007! | ||
| (done) | Have command line option to output to a file a pseudocode mockup of the file format | |
| (done) | EPS out booklet landscape is broken, fix it! | |
| (done) | Implement all preview config options, namely auto preview files over a certain size | |
| (done) | Be able to search for existing previews in ~/.thumbnails/large and normal | |
| (done) | Document selector button up in corner should work | |
| (done) | Clean up image import dialog | |
| (done) | Fix icons/makeimages.py!! "from xml.sax import saxexts" somehow stopped working | |
| (done) | Eye dropper-ish color grabber, ideally grab any color anywhere on the screen | |
| (done) | (sort of) Make the select by dragging out a rectangle work | |
| (done) | limbo objects should save with the document, instead of just disappearing!!! | |
| (done) | Linear and radial Gradients should have vastly better interfaces | |
| (done) | Image and Color patches should have vastly better interfaces | |
| (done) | (but only because I can't reproduce it any more for some mysterious reason) from laxkit: fix tooltips: seems laxkit accidentally allows multiple tooltips on rare occasions | |
Version 0.06 -- released 25 April 2007! | ||
| (done) | parent/child nesting and interface for that: nesting, and grouping: layer trees | |
| (done) | New document creation from templates | |
| (done) | Be able to work with preview images more easily | |
| (done) | Basic EPS import, would open up all kinds of down and dirty tricks using other programs:latex,lilypond,... | |
Version 0.05 -- released 4 November 2006! | ||
| (done) | Build a features.html for the webpage | |
| (done) | Be able to work with preview images, rather than hundreds of 15M tiffs | |
| (done) | Show adjacent pages in Net Singles view (prelude to being able to unwrap shapes any way they can) | |
| (done) | Use a ~/.laidout/0.05/laidoutrc | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: re-fix auto arranging | |
| (done) | ObjectInterface for selecting and resizing multiple stuff | |
| (done) | Import images from a list file | |
| (done) | Make ImageInterface scaling suck less, and distinguish between no image and broken image | |
| (done) | autoconfiscate or cmake or (this one)have simple "configure" thingy | |
| (done) | Should be able to 'Open Document' without restarting Laidout!! | |
| (done) | Improve internal icon management | |
Version 0.04 -- released 4 September 2006! | ||
| (done) | Palette Window | |
| (done) | RSS feed for website | |
| (done) | A style manager, which is Not dependent on laxkit::refcounter, which is being removed | |
| (done) | from laxkit: SplitWindow: swap window positions | |
| (done) | Simple multiple image import by selecting one or more from a directory | |
| (done) | Allow for window docking, floating, swapping panes, and temporary pane maximize | |
| (done) | Page Ranges controlling page number labels | |
| (done) | Make workspace bounds and popup panner save with the document | |
| (done) | Fix page/spread flip by number | |
Version 0.03 -- released 13 May 2006! | ||
| (done) | (but needs serious optimizing) Bezier patch with image for the color (this would be HOT for the gimp! a side project..) | |
| (done) | if an image is selected, should be able to import an image to it | |
| (done) | printing: produce masked images based on 50% threshhold of alpha channel of images | |
| (done) | When loading files from the command line, should understand: 'file:///path/to/it' | |
| (done) | Whoops! Change reference from LGPL to GPL in source code!! Crap!! | |
| (done) | Load and save window configurations | |
| (done) | EPS out to file###.eps by page not paper | |
| (done) | Be able to print a paper range | |
| (done) | an About window | |
| (done) | command prompt window | |
| (done) | Get rid of vertical white stripe toward bottom of the laidout webpage | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: drag to viewer to work on that page or spread | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: fix auto arranging | |
| (done) | Make doc tree changes sanely update the various windows | |
| (done) | Be able to DEselect all objects!! | |
Version 0.02 -- released 8 April 2006! | ||
| (done) | Rename Disposition to Imposition. Why oh why did I call it Disposition?? | |
| (done) | Insert some way to turn off debug info dumped to cout (done in a convoluted way, perhaps) | |
| (done) | Linear Gradients edit, save, and printout | |
| (done) | Circle Gradients edit, save, and printout | |
| (done) | Color patches should work better than in 0.01 | |
| (done) | Overall windowing setup using Laxkit::SplitWindows, | |
| (done) | from laxkit: replacement of 'datastack' should be complete, do same here | |
| (done) | Popup tool selector | |
| (done) | ObjectInterface for resizing and shearing | |
| (done) | Make Save/Save As dialog box suck less: 'test/1.doc' should mean cd test, save '1.doc' | |
| (done) | Make it easy to make deb packages from source | |
| (done) | extremely basic print dialog: print to file (ask on overwrite) or send via shell command | |
| (done) | make the directory spot in viewer keep updated current directory | |
| (done) | debug SpreadEditor thumbnail updating, and clip thumb to page | |
| (done) | A help button to popup a list of all the otherwise unmentioned key shortcuts | |
| (done) | Debug 'Delete Page' | |
| (done) | Button for pageclips | |
| (done) | Implement SpreadEditor Reset button | |
Version 0.01 -- released 12 March 2006! | ||
| (done) | Clean up web page a bit. | |
| (done) | TILING MUST WORK!!!!!!! for booklets also | |
| (done) | Get NetDisposition sort of going | |
| (done) | Implement page clipping for display AND for printing.. | |
| (done) | Images should work well | |
| (done) | Color patches should work enough to be getting on with | |
| (done) | in the laxkit: menuselector, | |
| (done) | tooltips IMPORTANT!!, | |
| (done) | and set said tooltips for the mystery numbers in ViewWindow | |
| (done) | Add copyright notice to source files | |
| (done) | Add and Delete Page buttons | |
| (done) | Throw together a quick key-stroke cheat sheet | |
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