[Desktop_printing] Agenda proposal: Replace PostScript by PDF as job transfer format

[Robert L Krawitz]

   Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:24:58 -0800
   From: Ralph Giles <giles at ghostscript.com>
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   On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:45:31PM -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:

   > >Does PDF (and the xpdf engine) support high bit depths (such as 16
   > >bits)?  I'd like to see us move in that direction.  There's nothing
   > 
   > PDF supports it, and I *think* Derek's Splash engine will do arbitrary
   > bit depths and colorspaces (perhaps we should invite him to the summit
   > as well - I'll ask if he is interested...)

   So does Ghostscript, sort of. Kai-Uwe discovered some flatness
   issues this summer. But in any case we are interested in supporting
   this and would love to have 16 bit drivers to talk to.

Gutenprint 5.0 (currently -rc1, soon to be -rc2) is fully 16-bit
capable.

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