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Ashkulz, it is most important right now to create or plan for a framework that can be easily extended or repurposed for new things and by new applications. Anyway, all it'd be is just three executables. And they'll be doing the same things the monolithic thing is doing now. there'll just be a bit more work talking through a defined interface, but it'll pay off through much greater flexibility. Flexibility to change pieces
how about we discuss a spec?
ok, so, the rasterizer exe would expose some of the things ghostscript, etc should be able to do:
-- input - pdf file or list of files
-- output - output folder and filename
-- output size in pixels and format (8bit, gray, color)
-- autocropping, explicit cropbox
-- (opt) output file type (png, jpg, bmp, raw)
-- (opt) rotation
-- (opt) device-specific features (eg ghostscript's font-rendering modes)
this exe prints out the names of the files it processes so that these could be piped or saved to a variable (or to a file). The other exes should be able to accept input filenames piped in (and maybe from a file).
the processing exe would be:
-- input/output filenames
-- output resolution, format
-- (opt) fit (centered, upper-left, stretched)
-- (impl-specific, opt) dilate factor
-- (impl-specific, opt) eg sharpen or other filter parameters
collating exe would just take a list of files and bind them into a format for some specific device. it would also accept a TOC as a file or something. (people could write new .exe's to add support for new/old devices and file formats)
misc ideas-
overcropping... option to crop not at the first black pixel but only after, say, a few dozen (so dust, dots, or lines don't mess up autocropping)
output filenames... imagemagic etc can take output filename as eg "fileA%02d.png" and produce fileA01.png, fileA02.png
I think a standalone app would be used more than an integrated one. Personally, i just use sd cards and never sony connect. Also, a standalone app can focus better on adding support to do all the things that could give the best results. Maybe doing it in qt will make it more difficult to do something fancy that lets you preview, crop, rotate, etc. I don't know, but i know that manually cropping in acrobat is very, very helpful. However, I've never found a free alternative to do manual cropping.
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