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Hello Edmund and all,<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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We are all going big step forward.<br>
Jan-Peter<br>
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Am 21.06.11 22:52, schrieb edmund ronald:
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cite="mid:BANLkTim8eNPOOX8mqPBw9KV0rzXcFr=Xzg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>Edmund<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM,
Till Kamppeter <span dir="ltr"><<a
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wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 06/21/2011 05:30 PM, Jan-Peter
Homann wrote:<br>
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Hello Richard,<br>
I would recommend to embed the driver informations
into CUPS raster file<br>
as IPP attribute. like Till described it for CPD.<br>
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we may should also consider to register at the ICC
a Metdata Type for<br>
Gutenprint driver settings.<br>
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I will ask at the ICC about the necessary steps,
that we are prepared to<br>
do in near future.<br>
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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.<br>
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