[Openicc] Google Summer of Code 2011: The Common Printing Dialog and Color Management

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 16.05.11, 15:09 +1000 schrieb Graeme Gill:
> Hal V. Engel wrote:
>
>> B. There is significant disagreement over how to handle target printing 
>> that
>> appears to break down into two approaches.
>> 
>> Use a specialized app.  A slight variation on this would be to approach one 
>> of
>
>> C. The other option is to put controls in the print UI for target printing.
>> This might be OK as a stop gap pending creating a specialized app.
>
> You are missing the third alternative, which is to tag
> the test files.
>
> I've done a rough draft of such an approach, and put it here:
> <http://www.argyllcms.com/SCPS_Tag.txt> if you are interested.

Thats interessting.

> [We used this approach very successfully on the ColorBus RIP]
>
> This approach does not exclude others. An application could have
> an option to add this tag, or a printer configuration or print
> dialog could have an option of adding or overriding the tag.

How do you think PPD and CPD or Gutenprint can interact with the SCPS tag?
So you expect the tag to be preserved after the PDF rasterisation? Then 
pdftoraster would be somehow involved. I would like to read more 
descriptions about the intented stage in the process and implementation 
details. That could greatly help.

[Gutenprint has annouced support for the ColorKeyWord colour tagging of
  options. That information would cover all options of State 1 - 4.]

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