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

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 17.05.10, 11:09 -0400 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> What you propose is particially related to the "cupsICCProfile" PPD
>> keyword. By this keyword the ICC profile is only named and not embedded in
>> the PPD as you suggest.
>
>
> In addition, cupsICCProfile isn't supported by desktop applications (such as
> Adobe Acrobat/Reader) on any OS platform and certainly not in any situation
> on Windows.   Is it widely enough used to even consider trying to support
> it?  Certainly none of the major vendors are including this in profiles
> supplied with printers - does it only appear in a customized CUPS driver
> installation?

We have practical no support for cupsICCProfile on Linux. It supports too 
few use cases. Linux is much networked. A PPD embedded ICC profile would 
be prefered.


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org