[Openicc] PPD colouring

[Leonard Rosenthol]

We've been trying to convince printer manufactures to support the inclusion
of one or more profiles into a PPD for YEARS, but they are unwilling to do
so for a variety of reasons - from moving things away from their
"proprietary color management solutions" to giving away trade secrets to
lack fo flexibility.

So Adobe would fully support such an effort - but any work you do is going
to have to happen through the modification of such PPD's AFTER the fact and
without the support of the actual printer vendors.

Leonard

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:

> End user applications want to assign ICC profiles to a combination or
> printer device, a driver and a set of colour related driver options. Thus
> for PPD to support this scheme it is necessary to know, which PPD option is
> colour related. The proposal suggests a enumerated list of PPD key words
> named colourKeyWords[1-0], containing a semicolon ';' separated list of PPD
> key words. The listed keys relate to colour and thus with their values to
> the ICC profile selection at application level. [1]
>
> The scheme increase relyability of the local ICC profile selection process
> and avoids interfering with non colour related features.
>
> How can this scheme be best introduced into Gutenprint or foomatic PPDs?
>
> Btw: Oyranos supports this scheme since the last release 0.1.10.
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> --
> developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
>
>
> PS: there are other use cases, which are not touched by this
>    proposal, like remote proofing.
>
> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc#PPDcolouring
>
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