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

[Prince P <prince1a@gmail.com>]

Hi Ira,
        Thank you very much for the information and the help extended
to me.If you can give some insight or links  about the design effort
in  XHTML-Print group to interpret the XHMTL pages one at a time,
without caching, it will be a great help.

Thanks and Regards

Prince





On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:21:58 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
<imcdonald@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ah - you're building an interpreter - I'm sure there are some
> free XHTML to PCL raster libraries somewhere, but some Google
> searching for an hour didn't find them.
> 
> There was a design effort in XHTML-Print to ensure that a
> receiver (a spooler or a printer) could interpret the XHMTL
> pages one at a time, without caching.
> 
> Good luck with your project,
> - 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: Sunday, March 13, 2005 11:40 PM
> To: McDonald, Ira
> Cc: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org; pwg@pwg.org
> Subject: [Printing-architecture] Re: How to convert xhtml-print to
> printer specific data
> 
> 
> 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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