[poppler] smaller HTML images

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Thursday, June 23, 2011, Josh Richardson va escriure:
> We will position the images relative to the white background div.  They
> will be positioned at coordinates corresponding to the regions' respective
> original positions in the large single image.  They will be positioned at
> a z index between the background div and the overlying text.
> 
> Let me know if that's enough info.

Ok, seems you know what you're doing and to be fair i don't really care much 
about pdftohtml.

Albert

> 
> Thanks, --josh
> 
> On 6/23/11 12:51 AM, "Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >A Thursday, June 23, 2011, Josh Richardson va escriure:
> >> Currently pdftohtml is creating one large image for each HTML page
> >> rendered.  In order to reduce the size of the HTML file bundles, as well
> >> as to improve the semantic value of the HTML, Stephen and I would like
> >>
> >>to
> >>
> >> extract and use only the portions of that background image that are not
> >> background white.
> >> 
> >> In order to accomplish this, our idea is to add hooks into the
> >> SplashOutputDevNoText to catch painting operations, and record
> >>
> >>coordinates
> >>
> >> of the bounding box for any painting operations.  After recording each
> >> bounding box, we'll draw a new bounding box to combine any contiguous
> >> regions.  Once we have a list of non-contiguous bounding boxes
> >> representing all graphics operations that have occurred on the page,
> >>
> >>we'll
> >>
> >> use those bounding boxes to extract only the relevant regions from the
> >> large background image, save each region as a separate file, and
> >>
> >>reference
> >>
> >> the files from the HTML.
> >> 
> >> Since we're extending the output device, we'll rename it from
> >> SplashOutputDevNoText to better capture the new role:
> >> SplashOutputDevHtmlImages.  If you think we should retain the old
> >>
> >>behavior
> >>
> >> with a switch, please let me know ‹ I don't see a significant benefit to
> >> it.
> >
> >How are you planning to make text overlap correctly the image if the
> >image
> >size is changed?
> >
> >Albert
> >
> >> As always, any comments appreciated.
> >> 
> >> --josh
> >
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