[Openicc] colord Printing Plans, CPD and Gutenprint role of PPD

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 01.03.11, 14:22 -0700 schrieb Chris Murphy:
> This is why I think press proofing needs to be off the table for now.

Thats my impression as well.

> From my experience with this (which is somewhat limited, I think Leonard 
> knows more about this), I'd say the following are doable in a v1.0

> •	Flat color PDFs

agreed

> •	RGB only, mixed color space (i.e. sRGB and Adobe RGB), with live transparency, with an RGB blend space.
> •	CMYK only, single color space, live transparency, with CMYK blend space.

> •	Single output intent.

agreed

> If you include, in the core system, the ability to do two transforms it 
> gets much more complicated. And to effectively proof you'd have to deal 
> with mixed mode content, along with transparency anyway. That's is in 
> the realm of commercial products for now, IMO.

... or at least for specialised applications.

> And as for the CPD soft proof for the single *local* destination (again 
> I'm not considering printing presses to be local printers), e.g. to my 
> local laser printer. I'm generally opposed to simulating paper white 
> on-screen in a print dialog. You have all sorts of surround color issues 
> that obliterate any ability for the simulated paper white to be even 
> remotely helpful. If anything it's harmful. The intent to display for 
> such a "soft proof" should be RelCol no BPC. Not AbsCol.

Fine, this would suffice for a naive user friendly preview.

> Cloud printing is another area of exploration of the issues, and might 
> go in a v1.0 or maybe v1.5. How must it differ from local printing? Or 
> maybe how doesn't it differ at all? And what do the cloud printing