[Openicc] Linux CM ideology... Print preview

[Leonard Rosenthol]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Which means the app generates a PDF and sends it to them for
rasterization...(which is fine with me) - but that seems to be NOT what
Jan-Peter wants...

Leonard
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