[Openicc] Google Summer of Code 2009: Oyranos CUPS backend

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 12:03:43 +0200 (MEST)
   From: Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de>

   Hello,

   the CUPS backend needs to tell Oyranos, which PPD colour related entries 
   a PPD has. These entries are used to select a meaningful user configured 
   ICC profile.

   Could you imagine a PPD entry, which solely lists all colour related 
   entries? Something like:
   *colourKeyWords: "ColorModel;StpColorPrecision;MediaType;StpQuality;Resolution;StpInkSet;StpInkType;StpBrightness;StpFineBrightness;StpContrast;StpFineContrast;StpSaturation;StpFineSaturationStpImageType"
   Note this example is incomplete.

   A disadvantage might by that it has to be included into every PPD. For a 
   driver with a large number of supperted printers and hence many PPDs like 
   the Gutenprint one, it would mean to repeat that stuff. The advantage is 
   a included PPD entry would be very simple to parse along the CUPS 
   delivered PPD.

   Would this path be acceptable for foomatic, Gutenprint and hplib and 
   other vendors?

It wouldn't be that hard to do this for Gutenprint.