Hello Till, Thanks for joining. ... Am 05.10.08, 22:31 +0200 schrieb Till Kamppeter: > Hi, > > I am Till Kamppeter, leader of the OpenPrinting project at the Linux > Foundation. > > As most of you know, one of the projects of OpenPrinting is replacing > PostScript by PDF as standard print job format. Perhaps this has made this > thread come up. > > Here is a page with everything about the PDF printing workflow: Motivation, > how to set it up, and many links: > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PDF_as_Standard_Print_Job_Format Unfortunedly this page apears empty; ah the last letters is missed: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PDF_as_Standard_Print_Job_Format > In Ubuntu Intrepid I have already implemented the PDF printing workflow. > > One piece to get a PDF printing workflow on a CUPS-based Linux/Unix system are > the ...topdf, pdftopdf, pdfto... CUPS filters, which Koji Otani (BBR Inc. > Japan) and Tobias Hoffmann (Google Summer of Code) have written. Otanis-san > has written all his filters based on Poppler, including pdftoraster. > > Kai-Uwe, as you told in your posting we can expect full color management > support earlier in Ghostscript than in Poppler. Therefore I started to create > a pdftoraster filter based on Ghostscript. Unfortunately, the "cups" output > device of Ghostscript or the PDF interpreter of Ghostscript have a bug which > prevents Ghostscript from rendering PDF with the "cups" output device. With > PostScript input it works perfectly. I have filed a bug report at Ghostscript: > > http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690101 Thanks for this work. I am about looking into. > If anyone volunteers for fixing this bug, I will happily upload the fix into > Ghostscript's SVN repository and replace Otani-sans pdftoraster by my > pdftoraster. > > Till kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org > Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > > Am 04.10.08, 11:44 -0700 schrieb Hal V. Engel: > > > handle it at the application level (like today). The sad part about this > > > is that ghostscript already has some CM capabilities thanks to Graeme and > > > the ghostscript team is in the process of implementing complete support. > > > A PDF to raster CUPS filter based on ghostscript instead of poppler would > > > likely have had full CM support long before most users systems had been > > > converted to a PDF based printing work flow and all of these systems would > > > have had CM by default at that point as part of the printing system. >