[Openicc] What is exactly needed for color management ... driver setup PPD

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 01.06.11, 10:07 -0700 schrieb Michael Sweet:
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>> Am 01.06.11, 09:39 -0700 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
>>> On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 04:48:36 AM Till Kamppeter wrote:
>>>> In addition, the
>>>> filter gets called with a special command line, where the 5th argument
>>>> is a space-separated list of option settings containing all settings
>>>> supplied with the job as IPP attributes, especially the settings of PPD
>>>> options given  by the user in the printing dialog.
>>>
>>> Why not use this to pass the printer settings blob?  All that needs to happen
>>> is to extract it from the the profile and inset it into the command line as the
>>> 5th parm.
>>
>> Would that 5th param be able to hold 1MByte as Robert expected the calibration to be?
>
>
> As misguided an approach as I think this to be, it should work on any modern OS with swap. IMHO device calibration/configuration information should be stored out-of-band as a resource that is referenced by the job.

What is your recommendation to reference local user settings out of band 
from a remote CUPS filter?


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
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