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alex_d · 05-23-2008, 09:18 PM

I'd like to make a new release of RasterFarian, written in .NET 3.5 with a nice gui. There's opportunity for new functionality.

What do people do with pdfs and ebooks? What would people like rasterfarian to do?

Something I always wanted to implement was manual cropping, with a fancy interface for zooming in on the pages. Another programmer I remember implemented an autocropping feature that removed space between lines. A lot of people said they worked with scanned two-page book images, and wanted to clean them up and split them vertically. Something I've fantasized about is a cpu-sharing network for doing conversions, with people earning points they could redeem by tapping the grid. Some stuff isn't actually as hard to implement with modern programming technology as it used to be. Be creative, and we'll sort out what can be done.

(P.S. if you know of any image-processing steps that could improve RasterFarian's core transformation code, that would be welcome too.)

05-23-2008, 09:18 PM	#1
alex_d Addict Posts: 303 Karma: 187 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Sony Reader	RasterFarian 3 discussion + feature suggestions I'd like to make a new release of RasterFarian, written in .NET 3.5 with a nice gui. There's opportunity for new functionality. What do people do with pdfs and ebooks? What would people like rasterfarian to do? Something I always wanted to implement was manual cropping, with a fancy interface for zooming in on the pages. Another programmer I remember implemented an autocropping feature that removed space between lines. A lot of people said they worked with scanned two-page book images, and wanted to clean them up and split them vertically. Something I've fantasized about is a cpu-sharing network for doing conversions, with people earning points they could redeem by tapping the grid. Some stuff isn't actually as hard to implement with modern programming technology as it used to be. Be creative, and we'll sort out what can be done. (P.S. if you know of any image-processing steps that could improve RasterFarian's core transformation code, that would be welcome too.)