[Desktop_printing] Re: [Printing-architecture] Printing Summit memo (for tomorrow sc meeting)

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Feb 9 05:09:34 PST 2006


Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Regarding colourmanagement, Peter Linnel pointed allready out only RGB 
> seems supported by SVG, as well as I read. Most DTP applications would be 
> outruled without CMYK++ support.
> 
> DeviceColors and named colours are just mentioned to come in SVG 1.2.
> But these are allowed only for vector elements.
> 
> For pixel images one is limited to jpg/png which is not sufficient for 
> printing. Tiff would be on candidate to include as it is allreay a widely 
> accepted print format.

Then I think we should stick with PDF. There are also more programs
around which can generate or consume PDF files and PDF is also the
standard for posting printable documents on web sites.

   Till



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