[gs-devel] upcoming freeze for the 8.63 release - Make CUPS filters/PPDs PDF ready

[Ralph Giles]

On 17-Jul-08, at 9:28 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> Now my problem is how the options in the PPD have to be defined.  
> Most of them are PostScript commands to be added to the data  
> stream, but what happens if the data stream is PDF? Anyone has an  
> idea how to do this correctly?

The Ghostscript PDF interpreter is still implemented in Postscript  
and setting device parameters with a prepended postscript job will  
still work. Beyond that I don't know exactly what you need to do for  
the cups workflow, so I'd suggest just experimenting.

BTW, for the release after this one we're planning to implement end- 
to-end ICC-based colour correction. Is there a PPD method for  
describing the printer's with an ICC output profile?

  -r