[Openicc] Linux CM ideology... Print preview

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 07.02.11, 08:52 -0500 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jan-Peter Homann
> <homann at colormanagement.de>wrote:
>
>> As the printer profile is only defined through choosing the media-setting
>> in the printing UI, a print preview is best implemented as function of the
>> print UI (and not of an application creating complex PDF files)
>>
>>
> But how would the print UI get the "data" to be able to present/preview it?
> Who generates the data?  In what format? With what color settings?

The print data is to be printed by the UI (CPD). A preview is already 
there, just without any colour management at the moment. I guess CPD uses 
eigther Ghostscript or libpoppler to rasterise the preview.

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