[Printing-architecture] [Gimp-print-devel] Common Printing Dialog: PPD extension specs updated

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 00:10:28 PDT 2008


Robert Krawitz wrote:
>    Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:38 +0200
>    From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
> 
>    After getting some suggestions from Mike Sweet I have updated the specs 
>    again in some points:
> 
>    - Fallback when there are no Quick Presets: Option to choose BW or color 
>    is "ColorModel", not "ColorMode".
> 
>    - Simplified option tagging: Now the PPD contains one entry per tag. It 
>    defines the tag, its UI string and the options being under that tag. No 
>    additional lines in each option entry any more.
> 
>    - Option names in tag definitions and quick preset definitions start 
>    with an asterisk, to clearly mark them as option names and following the 
>    Adobe convention where main keywords start with an asterisk.
> 
>    - The CUPS options brightness, gamma, hue, and saturation are deprecated 
>    (will be removed from CUPS soon) and therefore they will not get 
>    included in the Common Printing Dialog. I have removed them from the PPD 
>    extensions specs.
> 
>    - The CUPS options page-left, page-right, page-top, and page-bottom 
>    apply only to plain-text jobs. Therefore I have put them under the 
>    "Text" tag.
> 
>    Mike, thank you very much for your help.
> 
> One other hint I'd like: "hide", to not display the option at all.
> This is for the fine adjustment options for the Gutenprint floating
> point options.  With proper input widgets, the fine adjustment options
> shouldn't display at all.
> 

I have added the "hide" widget hint now.

    Till


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