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

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

A spooler is not required to pass a ICC profile from a remote location to 
a local host. This is still very much needed to support local proofing.

Given that CUPS' cupsICCProfile is just a name without garantee to see the 
profile in applications, embedding seems the only option? Or how could it 
be made a requirement to obtain the profile?


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


Am 17.05.10, 09:39 -0600 schrieb 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
>