[Printing-summit] opvp
Hin-Tak Leung
hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Sep 13 11:22:16 PDT 2006
Hi,
I know direct printing of pdf works for many printers. My point is more about
having a demo driver that shows why the opvp approach is better
that other approaches, and also serves as coding example.
Other ideas - e.g. a vector driver that reads pdf and writes openoffice
format, would be useful to many, or even one that transform pdf's - e.g.
linearization/optimization.
Hin-Tak
Ulrich Wehner wrote:
> Hin-Tak,
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> Many vendors (not just Ricoh Lanier) support printing of PDF files, TIFF
> files, etc, without the use of a driver.
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> I know that prototypes of XPS interpreters have been around for a while.
> We (the printer vendors) can definitely take advantage of formats like
> SVG, and so forth.
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>
> Regards
> Uli Wehner
> Solutions Engineer
> (770) 493 2324
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>
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> Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent by: printing-summit-bounces at lists.freestandards.org
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> I know this is non-trivial, and probably no hardare
> vendor would sponsor such an activity, but as a demo example for
> a why (the advantage of) and a how (usable example),
> it would be interesting to have a vendor-neutral vector
> driver which doesn't require specific hardware.
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> e.g. a driver that produces SVG, pdf (i.e. like Adobe
> Distiller or ghostscript's pdfwrite) or postscript files
> from pdf or ps input.
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> I think hpijs or other PCL6 based printer can certainly
> benefit from a PCL6-output vector driver.
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> One advantage I can think of IJS over opvp is how it communicates
> with the "front end" - IJS driver is a separate process sharing
> a pair of file descriptors with the renderer process. It is
> probably slower than in-process communication like the
> shared-object/dll based opvp, but a bit easier to get "right",
> and does work under windows. (there are no IJS driver under
> windows I know of, other than the example driver, though)
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> Hin-Tak
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