[Printing-architecture] Re: The Linux Foundation is Hiring Students/Interns for Implementing the PDF Printing Workflow

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

Here is a link to more detailed information:

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Implementation#We_are_hiring_students.2Finterns.21

    Till


Till Kamppeter wrote:
> One of the decisions which was made on the OSDL Printing Summit in 
> Atlanta last year and widely accepted by all participants was to switch 
> the standard print job transfer format from PostScript to PDF. This 
> format has many important advantages, especially
> 
> * PDF is the common platform-independent web format for printable
>   documents
> * Portable
> * Easy post-processing (N-up, booklets, scaling, ...)
> * Easy Color management support
> * Easy High color depth support (> 8bit/channel)
> * Easy Transparency support
> * Smaller files
> * Linux workflow gets closer to Mac OS X
> 
> To turn this into reality work is needed in many components of the 
> printing infrastructure. The japanese team of the OpenPrinting work 
> group has already the needed CUPS filters in their Subversion repositories.
> 
> What is still missing is to make the universal print filter foomatic-rip 
> (most printer drivers are integrated into the printing system with this 
> filter) handling PDF input and to make the built-in printer drivers of 
> Ghostscript also working with other renderers than Ghostscript, like 
> XPDF/Poppler for example.
> 
> These two projects are now open for students or interns. If you like to 
> take one of these challenges, go to the detailed project description 
> and/or contact Till Kamppeter (till.kamppeter at gmail.com).
> 
> If you know someone who could be interested, please forward this 
> message. Please spread this message also on other lists, forums, ...
> 
>    Till
>