<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:36 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">…</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>*WHY* do people designing file formats insist on having arbitrary<br>limitations like that???!!!  Yes, I know it's slightly more convenient<br>in C if you can use fixed-length strings and arrays (you can just<br>declare objects rather than having to go through the slight<br>inconvenience of constructing them), but...but...but…<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>It is easy to throw stones, Robert, but understand that CUPS Raster was developed on 25MHz MIPS R2000 systems with a specific goal of replacing a streamable TIFF variant for streaming simple raster data using device or "standard" (pick one) color spaces. Job ticket information (the page device dictionary) is only provided to support simple per-page overrides for things like page size and so forth and is not (and never was) designed as a general container for binary goo that you might want to pass...</div><div><div><br></div></div><div>That said, why do you want to pass arbitrary driver data embedded in the print document?</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>________________________________________________________________________<br>Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair<br></div></span> </div> <br></body></html>