On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Alex Fiestas <afies...@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi there > > For those who don't know me my name is Alex Fiestas (afiestas), I have > been KDE developer for 2/3 years and so far I have work on BlueDevil > (Bluetooth), Kamoso (video), libsolid and I'm currently the manager of the > Solid community. > > I have been asked to develop a small server which will convert the most > popular documents into pixmaps so they can be rendered quickly anywhere, > I'm going to start the basic structure today but before I start with the > document processing I'd like to ask you for advice :p > > This is more or less what I know and what I have thought: > > Requirements: > The server must be as fast as possible and reliable, so we must be prepare > to handle crashes. The resulted document should be something standard such > PNG or JPG. > > Faster way I saw: > I have done some PoC using calligraconverter as base, the faster way I > found without messing too much with Calligra internals is to use the > private classes from each Calligra app to get the QWidget that will end > rendering the page or the document, and then use QWidget::render to paint > everything into a QPixmap. > There is also the okular odp converter that does something like that, although currently only for odp files.
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