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Implement PostscriptImage, either using PipeStream, or using libgs
[potentially messy, but not terribly hard]
Handle multiple DVI files on the command line. Similarly, have it able
to read more than one DVI file from the same source: that would
mean that it would be possible to have dvi2bitmap sitting reading
from a FIFO, while a succession of TeX processes write to the
FIFO. [a bit harder than it might seem, as a variety of things
might have to be re-initialised, and the code isn't currently
structured with this in mind]
Have dvi2bitmap able to write one of its bitmaps to the stdout. This
would make it possible to regard dvi2bitmap as a filter [this
should be pretty easy, and only depends on the output functions
(essentially libpng) accepting file handles rather than file
names, which libpng, at least, does]
Support PBM graphics; support PICT graphics on the Mac. [PICT would be
a lot harder than PBM, because there's a lot more Mac apparatus
has to be learned about and built into the build procedures. This
is a rather low priority, I think, and as far as PICT goes, more
trouble than it may be worth]
Perhaps have a configuration file, rather than all those options
Improve antialiasing, if there is in fact a more sophisticated
algorithm available than the simple scale-it-up-then-
scale-it-down used at present. At least add a --antialiasing
option to abbreviate --scale + --magnification [the latter at
least is quite trivial]
Improve BitmapImage documentation. Improve? Write it!
Create a process-DVI-file main loop as a function, allowing hooks to
be registered for each of the possible events.
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Refactor runCommandPipe as PipeStream, a subclass of InputByteStream
Done, 3 August 2003
Reimplement kpathsea as a singleton object
Done, 3 August 2003
Have InputByteStream mmap its target file, if possible [very easy,
really just a matter of the right bookkeeping]
Done, 22 August 2003 (pretty easy in fact, barring a couple of gotchas)
Implement reference points in output bitmaps, reported by --output=bitmap
Done 30 September 2003
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