[Openicc] - CM Framework - Printer Driver -

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello Edmund and all,
The driver metadata should be embedded in the ICC-profile at the moment 
of the profile creation. If we than generate a MDF5 Hash, we can be 
shure, that nothing can be changed secretly after.

So far as I know embedding and extracting of dictType Metadata is part 
of littleCMS and also handled through Oyranos and g-c-m / colord and CPD.

So we have already a quite robust infrastructure to work with  printer a 
ICC-profile containing driver settings in a standardized way compliant 
to the ICC specs.

We are all going big step forward.
Jan-Peter

Am 21.06.11 22:52, schrieb edmund ronald:
> Till, I disagree with this. At that point we are tied to a complex 
> externally managed data format which is similar to the Tiff format. It 
> is a pain to modify a tag in the native (binary) version of an ICC 
> profile, because you need to compute and write back the new tag 
> offsets for all the fields behind your own, if I remember correctly 
> See page 14 of
>
> http://www.color.org/ICC1v42_2006-05.pdf
>
>
> The other problem is that the legal issues of circulating modified 
> copies of an ICC profile is harder than the issue of just circulating 
> the profile - imagine that I carefully make a copyrighted but creative 
> commons licensed profile for eg. Epson Premium Luster  on the 4900 
> after determining inking. And now President Obama, while playing with 
> a Linux distribution in his spare time :)  changes the inking 
> condtions because he thinks prints need to be denser, and passes the 
> modified profile around, without modifying the copyright tag (which it 
> is usually forbidden to modify). Now a lot of people may start writing 
> me to say that my profile prints very densely on some environments. I 
> may get angry that my work has developed a behavior which I did not 
> put into it. The simplest way of preventing such issues is to accept 
> the idea that profiles are not intended to be changed *EVER* after 
> being written.
>
> Edmund
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Till Kamppeter 
> <till.kamppeter at gmail.com <mailto:till.kamppeter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/21/2011 05:30 PM, Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
>
>         Hello Richard,
>         I would recommend to embed the driver informations into CUPS
>         raster file
>         as IPP attribute. like Till described it for CPD.
>
>         we may should also consider to register at the ICC a Metdata
>         Type for
>         Gutenprint driver settings.
>
>         I will ask at the ICC about the necessary steps, that we are
>         prepared to
>         do in near future.
>
>
>     You should ask for a Metadata type for general driver settings.
>     This could simply be an ASCII string with undetermined length. It
>     then can contain the settings as "opt1=choice1 opt2=choice2 ...".
>     Note that not only Gutenprint but also other printer drivers can
>     benefit from this.
>
>       Till
>
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