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

[Prince P <prince1a@gmail.com>]

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
> > 
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