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Hello Hal and all,<br>
So far as I understand, we have no possibility to pull the ICC
profiles on a remote CUPS Server, but instead it is widely used,
that a PPD is pulled from the remote CUPS server.<br>
<br>
I´m not developer, but I´m working regularly together with
developers. From this experience, the manipulation of pure ASCII
files like a PPD is not something very complicated.<br>
Is it really a lot of work to create e.g. a basic PPD without color
relevant entries and update the color relevant entries from profile
Divtype metadata, which are installed on on the remote CUPS server ?<br>
<br>
Lets assume, that the DictType Metadata in the ICC-profile contains
the qualifiers for cupsICC, and the profiles are already installed
in the correct folder for the cupsICC workflow.<br>
<br>
What we would have to do would be mainly:<br>
<br>
- Parse all ICC-profiles in CUPS profile directory<br>
- read cupsICC qualifiers and profile filename from every profile<br>
- create PPD entry for color relevant data<br>
- merge color relevenat PPD data with standard PPD data<br>
- let CUPS clients pull the updated PPD<br>
<br>
Is this a way could solve the color problems, we have currently with
the remote CUPS print path ?<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Jan-Peter<br>
<br>
Am 18.05.11 19:46, schrieb Hal V. Engel:
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > 1) Dynamic
updating of PPDs for a remote CUPS server</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > Are there
tools available, which allow to update automatically a PPD</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > representing a
remote CUPS server ?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > The use case
here would be the installation of new combinations of</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > ICC-profiles
with assigned driver settings on the CUPS server with an</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > automatic
update of the cupsICC entries in the PPD.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">There are no tools that
exist for this. In addition the PPD files are intended for
printer/driver vendors and the whole setup is designed to be
static. So currently using PPD files for dynamic configuration
is not possible and will require a lot of work to change.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > 2) CUPS client
pulling PPD from the remote CUPS server</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > Are tools
available, which allow a CUPS cleint to pull a PPD from the</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > remote CUPS
server ?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > (The usecase
here is, that the printing GUI for sending a print job</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > gets an
update, which driver settings (media / resolution) are</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > available at
the remote server.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">This is already in place
and widely used.</p>
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