[alberto-cuda]

Hi all,
if I correctly understand the software architecture of calibre, when a PDF document is reflowed by calibre, it is converted into XML, then back into PDF. Is there any interest in implementing a code path that avoids this two steps algorithm and (when the input format is the same as the output format) allow a plugin to take a shorthand? Do you see that as a severe violation of the design choices?

I'm asking this (sorry if this sounds as an advertisement, it's not -- completely), because I'm writing a tool that reflows PDFs (PDFlow, on Launchpad), and I think it would be nice to integrate it with calibre, in order to avoid loosing metadata and keeping the layout as close as possible to the orifinal document. I could not, however find any obvious way to do that without changing the Plugin API.

Thanks a lot, cheers.
Alberto.