[Openicc] PPD colouring

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

End user applications want to assign ICC profiles to a combination or 
printer device, a driver and a set of colour related driver options. Thus 
for PPD to support this scheme it is necessary to know, which PPD option 
is colour related. The proposal suggests a enumerated list of PPD key 
words named colourKeyWords[1-0], containing a semicolon ';' separated list 
of PPD key words. The listed keys relate to colour and thus with their 
values to the ICC profile selection at application level. [1]

The scheme increase relyability of the local ICC profile selection process 
and avoids interfering with non colour related features.

How can this scheme be best introduced into Gutenprint or foomatic PPDs?

Btw: Oyranos supports this scheme since the last release 0.1.10.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org


PS: there are other use cases, which are not touched by this
     proposal, like remote proofing.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc#PPDcolouring