[Printing-architecture] Optimizing MicroJobTicket - JTAPI 'native' symbols

Petrie, Glen glen.petrie at eitc.epson.com
Tue Apr 1 10:18:51 PDT 2008


Ira,

Isn't coherence a wonderful thing?  I think question/idea you bring up is a
important issue (and big one).  I have written the rest of email twice now
and still not happy with results.

I want to think on it more before responding.

Glen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ira McDonald [mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:00 AM
> To: printing-architecture at lists.linux-foundation.org; Lars Uebernickel;
> Petrie, Glen; Ira McDonald
> Subject: Optimizing MicroJobTicket - JTAPI 'native' symbols
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Right after I suggested we just use MJT for any needed interprocess
> serialization of a parsed job ticket in the JTAPI Library, I thought
> 
> "Hey, the current MJT uses IPP standard property names and values
> and a PWG namespace - duh!"
> 
> I suggest that I revise the PWG MJT working draft to be an OP MJT
> working draft (which I need to do anyway).
> 
> I should define a second standard JTAPI namespace for MJT, that uses
> JTAPI standard property names and values - this would let the external
> job ticket match exactly the OP canonical names from JTAPI - a very
> long-standing coherence goal that Glen has championed and I support.
> 
> However, for use with CUPS and/or PAPI integration, support for the PWG
> IPP names in MJT is also important.  Hmm...
> 
> Comments, Glen and Lars?
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
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