[Desktop_printing] Update of the Printing Summit Agenda

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Jan 11 18:16:32 PST 2006


Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>> <snipped>
>>>> Also:
>>>>
>>>>     - Writing printer drivers - CUPS DDK, IJS, etc?
>>> Actually one of an interesting idea would be vector-based hook
>>> out of ghostscript or something equivalent - by that I mean a
> pluggible
>>> architecture for printers that can speak some form of vector format.
>> The OpenPrinting folks are working on this with funding from the
>> Japanese gov't.
> 
> What is the current status of that work? The webpage isn't very up to
> date.

Last I heard they have the basic Ghostscript stuff done and have
funding to port their work to Xpdf.

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