[Printing-architecture] Job Tickets in PDF Files - see CUPS/1.4

[Printing-architecture] Job Tickets in PDF Files - see CUPS/1.4

[Ira McDonald]

Hi Till,

Thanks for announcing next week's Open Printing SC meeting!
I've been very busy with a live radio show, PWG meetings last
week, and Samsung stuff.

I *have* read the various threads on Color Management and
user-specific presets and so on.


** Embedding Job Tickets in PDF Files **

        CUPS/1.4 Beta Support

- STR#2903 - 3 September 2008

- "%cupsJobTicket:" comments at top of PDF files

- Open printing should consider adopting this as
  an OP Standard

- A possible GSoC 2009 project could be JTAPI
  support for this format

- Also, since it complements base PDF standards
  (ISO PDF/A, PWG PDF/is), perhaps the PWG would
  adopt it as a PWG Candidate Standard (with a PWG
  namespace prefix, rather than CUPS)?

Comments?

Cheers,
- Ira


-- 
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
email: blueroofmusic@gmail.com
winter:
  579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176
  734-944-0094
summer:
  PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839
  906-494-2434

Re: [Printing-architecture] Job Tickets in PDF Files - see CUPS/1.4

[Till Kamppeter]

Ira McDonald wrote:
> ** Embedding Job Tickets in PDF Files **
> 
>         CUPS/1.4 Beta Support
> 
> - STR#2903 - 3 September 2008
> 
> - "%cupsJobTicket:" comments at top of PDF files
> 
> - Open printing should consider adopting this as
>   an OP Standard
> 

In principle this is a good idea, but if you look into the English 
translation of the OP Japan minutes, they tell that on the Cairo 
developer conference it was talked about embedding printing meta data as 
an object in PDF files.

> - A possible GSoC 2009 project could be JTAPI
>   support for this format
> 

Yes, good idea.

> - Also, since it complements base PDF standards
>   (ISO PDF/A, PWG PDF/is), perhaps the PWG would
>   adopt it as a PWG Candidate Standard (with a PWG
>   namespace prefix, rather than CUPS)?
> 

Good idea, too.

    Till