From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48908DD8.2080405@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:50:48 +0200 From: Till Kamppeter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Printing-architecture] Common Printing Dialog: PPD extension specs updated List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Printing-japan , gimp-print-devel , Michael R Sweet , Jonathan Riddell Hi, after the conference call last week with Peter Sikking and the two GSoC students implementing the dialog and after some discussion with Mike Sweet from CUPS I have updated the specs of the PPD extensions: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PPDExtensions I have done the following changes: - Replaced the "*OPQuickPresets" keyword by "*APPrinterPreset" as defined in the CUPS PPD extensions on http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/spec-ppd.html#APPrinterPreset - Mentioned that UI texts of PPDs should not be too long due to limited space in the dialog. - Mentioned that a PPD cannot have more that 11 tags. - Allow tags for options which are not in the PPD (like CUPS options) - Allow canceling tags (like the predefined tags coming from CUPS options). - Added section about CUPS options and their pre-defined tags - Added new "donthide1choice" widget hint to not suppress an option when it has only one choice. I appreciate very much your comments, especially about the tags for the CUPS options and additional document types for the "*APPrinterPreset" keyword. I think with these extensions we should be well approaching the final specs for the PPD extensions. Till