RE: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

RE: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi,

I'm forwarding your question to the general discussion list
of the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG), who developed
the XHTML-Print standard and then passed it over to the W3C,
who adopted it as a W3C Candidate Standard in January 2004:

	http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/

You might want to take a look at that standard itself.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:05 AM
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Subject: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer
specific data


Can anyone tell how we can convert xhtml-print data to printer
specific data ? I had searched the whole web, but couldn't get any
useful info.

Please help me


Regards

Prince

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[Printing-architecture] Re: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

[Prince P]

Hi Ira,
         Thank you very much for replying.  I had gone through the
spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/ . But it speaks about the xhtml
standard only. It doesn't says how printers interprets this. Is the
xhtml-print to actual print data conversion is done through some
proprietary methods ?

Anyway thanks for the help Ira 



On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:12:48 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
<imcdonald@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm forwarding your question to the general discussion list
> of the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG), who developed
> the XHTML-Print standard and then passed it over to the W3C,
> who adopted it as a W3C Candidate Standard in January 2004:
> 
> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
> 
> You might want to take a look at that standard itself.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org
> [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org]On Behalf
> Of Prince P
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:05 AM
> To: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org
> Subject: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer
> specific data
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell how we can convert xhtml-print data to printer
> specific data ? I had searched the whole web, but couldn't get any
> useful info.
> 
> Please help me
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Prince
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@mail.freestandards.org
> http://mail.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>

[Printing-architecture] RE: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi Prince,

By "actual print data" do you mean a raster format like
PCL or a vector format like PDF or something else?

The XHTML-Print to actual print data conversion is done
by an "interpreter" (either on the spooler or the target
printer).  Support for printing of HTML documents is
becoming more common on printers.  Typically, a modern
HTML interpreter can also parse XHTML correctly.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Prince P [mailto:prince1a@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:59 AM
To: McDonald, Ira
Cc: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org; pwg@pwg.org
Subject: Re: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data


Hi Ira,
         Thank you very much for replying.  I had gone through the
spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/ . But it speaks about the xhtml
standard only. It doesn't says how printers interprets this. Is the
xhtml-print to actual print data conversion is done through some
proprietary methods ?

Anyway thanks for the help Ira 



On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:12:48 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
<imcdonald@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm forwarding your question to the general discussion list
> of the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG), who developed
> the XHTML-Print standard and then passed it over to the W3C,
> who adopted it as a W3C Candidate Standard in January 2004:
> 
> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
> 
> You might want to take a look at that standard itself.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org
> [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org]On Behalf
> Of Prince P
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:05 AM
> To: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org
> Subject: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer
> specific data
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell how we can convert xhtml-print data to printer
> specific data ? I had searched the whole web, but couldn't get any
> useful info.
> 
> Please help me
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Prince
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@mail.freestandards.org
> http://mail.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>

[Printing-architecture] Re: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

[Prince P]

Dear Ira,
          By acutal print data, what i meant was how to convert the
XHTML-Print format data to a raster format. In the specification, it
was pointed out that XHTML-Print is designed for low cost printers.  I
am trying to implement such an interpreter which can convert the
"XHTML-Print data to PCL format". It would be a great help, if you can
give me some links or guidelines on this. Again,the low cost printer
may not have enough memory  to store the XHTML-Print format data
fully. In that case,how we we can covert the partial data to actual. ?

 Thanks again Ira, for your helping hand. 


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:23:19 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
<imcdonald@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> Hi Prince,
> 
> By "actual print data" do you mean a raster format like
> PCL or a vector format like PDF or something else?
> 
> The XHTML-Print to actual print data conversion is done
> by an "interpreter" (either on the spooler or the target
> printer).  Support for printing of HTML documents is
> becoming more common on printers.  Typically, a modern
> HTML interpreter can also parse XHTML correctly.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prince P [mailto:prince1a@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:59 AM
> To: McDonald, Ira
> Cc: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org; pwg@pwg.org
> Subject: Re: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data
> 
> 
> Hi Ira,
>          Thank you very much for replying.  I had gone through the
> spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/ . But it speaks about the xhtml
> standard only. It doesn't says how printers interprets this. Is the
> xhtml-print to actual print data conversion is done through some
> proprietary methods ?
> 
> Anyway thanks for the help Ira 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:12:48 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
> <imcdonald@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm forwarding your question to the general discussion list
> > of the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG), who developed
> > the XHTML-Print standard and then passed it over to the W3C,
> > who adopted it as a W3C Candidate Standard in January 2004:
> > 
> > 	http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
> > 
> > You might want to take a look at that standard itself.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > - Ira
> > 
> > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> > Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> > PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> > phone: +1-906-494-2434
> > email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org
> > [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org]On Behalf
> > Of Prince P
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:05 AM
> > To: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org
> > Subject: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer
> > specific data
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone tell how we can convert xhtml-print data to printer
> > specific data ? I had searched the whole web, but couldn't get any
> > useful info.
> > 
> > Please help me
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Prince
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Printing-architecture mailing list
> > Printing-architecture@mail.freestandards.org
> > http://mail.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
> >
>