[Openicc] Introduction / Gutenprint

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 11 April 2005 00:56, Gerhard Fuernkranz wrote:
> Craig Bradney schrieb:
> >Dont forget print previews must also handle CMS and plate separation (as
> >Scribus does now, via GS).
>
> IMO this leads to the question:
> Is a soft proof or print preview a task for the printing subsystem or
> for the application?

Depends at what level you end up talking to drivers and what is used to 
generate previews. Eg, we cant generate previews that show transparency 
properly (until we write a flattener) as PS doesnt handle it at all. 

You should not have to rely on a printer being installed, or the correct one. 
Remember, you will be exporting to PDF in the DTP case more and more as the 
commercial RIPS come up to standard, and therefore never ever actually use 
your own printing system, and a lot of people have not even one clue about 
setting up their own system with a PPD for a dumb printer, let alone a RIP 
based printing system.

Craig