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

[Max Derhak]

As Chris Murphy pointed out, I would be wary of assuming a one to one
relationship between a printer and a single profile.  Potentially each
media, output resolution, and halftoning strategy needs to have a
different profile.  Ideally you want to have something that allows all
the printing condition settings to select the profile.  

My understanding is that this doesn't lend itself to using PPD's easily.

Max Derhak
Senior Software Architect
max.derhak at onyxgfx.com


-----Original Message-----
From: openicc-bounces+max.derhak=onyxgfx.com at lists.freedesktop.org
[mailto:openicc-bounces+max.derhak=onyxgfx.com at lists.freedesktop.org] On
Behalf Of Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 9:22 AM
To: Leonard Rosenthol
Cc: Dov Isaacs; OpenICC Liste
Subject: Re: [Openicc] Google Summer of Code 2009: Oyranos CUPS backend

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

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