[Openicc] Linux CM ideology... Print preview

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 07.02.11, 10:58 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> On Monday, February 07, 2011 06:46:21 AM Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Poppler currently does not have all of the hooks it needs in the Qt4 or GTK
> interface code to handle creating color managed rasters.  I created a patch
> set to implement these hooks as well as updating the Qt4 example app to
> support CM for the display device about a year ago for the Qt4 wrapper.  But
> the patches never made it into the main code base.  The code needed to put
> these hooks in place is fairly simple as these things go (most of my code
> ended up in the example app) so I am not sure why this has not been done yet.

Can you please forward us a link to this code to collect it in ColourWiki:
http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Device_Settings#Printing

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