[Printing-architecture] RE: How to convert xhtml-print to pri nter specific data

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi,

I'd suggest you write directly to the W3C XHTML-Print editor
Jim Bigelow (jim.bigelow at hp.com).

I wasn't personally active in either the IEEE/ISTO PWG or
later W3C working groups for this standard.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Prince P [mailto:prince1a at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:08 AM
To: McDonald, Ira
Cc: printing-architecture at base3.freestandards.org
Subject: Re: How to convert xhtml-print to pri nter specific data


Hi Ira,
        Thank you very much for the information and the help extended
to me.If you can give some insight or links  about the design effort
in  XHTML-Print group to interpret the XHMTL pages one at a time,
without caching, it will be a great help.

Thanks and Regards

Prince





On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:21:58 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
<imcdonald at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ah - you're building an interpreter - I'm sure there are some
> free XHTML to PCL raster libraries somewhere, but some Google
> searching for an hour didn't find them.
> 
> There was a design effort in XHTML-Print to ensure that a
> receiver (a spooler or a printer) could interpret the XHMTL
> pages one at a time, without caching.
> 
> Good luck with your project,
> - Ira
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: printing-architecture-bounces at base3.freestandards.org
> [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces at base3.freestandards.org]On Behalf
> Of Prince P
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 11:40 PM
> To: McDonald, Ira
> Cc: printing-architecture at base3.freestandards.org; pwg at pwg.org
> Subject: [Printing-architecture] Re: How to convert xhtml-print to
> printer specific data
> 
> 
> Dear Ira,
>           By acutal print data, what i meant was how to convert the
> XHTML-Print format data to a raster format. In the specification, it
> was pointed out that XHTML-Print is designed for low cost printers.  I
> am trying to implement such an interpreter which can convert the
> "XHTML-Print data to PCL format". It would be a great help, if you can
> give me some links or guidelines on this. Again,the low cost printer
> may not have enough memory  to store the XHTML-Print format data
> fully. In that case,how we we can covert the partial data to actual. ?
> 
>  Thanks again Ira, for your helping hand. 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:23:19 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
> <imcdonald at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> > Hi Prince,
> > 
> > By "actual print data" do you mean a raster format like
> > PCL or a vector format like PDF or something else?
> > 
> > The XHTML-Print to actual print data conversion is done
> > by an "interpreter" (either on the spooler or the target
> > printer).  Support for printing of HTML documents is
> > becoming more common on printers.  Typically, a modern
> > HTML interpreter can also parse XHTML correctly.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > - Ira
> > 
> > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> > Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> > PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> > phone: +1-906-494-2434
> > email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Prince P [mailto:prince1a at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:59 AM
> > To: McDonald, Ira
> > Cc: printing-architecture at base3.freestandards.org; pwg at pwg.org
> > Subject: Re: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Ira,
> >          Thank you very much for replying.  I had gone through the
> > spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/ . But it speaks about the xhtml
> > standard only. It doesn't says how printers interprets this. Is the
> > xhtml-print to actual print data conversion is done through some
> > proprietary methods ?
> > 
> > Anyway thanks for the help Ira 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:12:48 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
> > <imcdonald at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm forwarding your question to the general discussion list
> > > of the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG), who developed
> > > the XHTML-Print standard and then passed it over to the W3C,
> > > who adopted it as a W3C Candidate Standard in January 2004:
> > > 
> > > 	http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
> > > 
> > > You might want to take a look at that standard itself.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > - Ira
> > > 
> > > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> > > Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> > > PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> > > phone: +1-906-494-2434
> > > email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: printing-architecture-bounces at base3.freestandards.org
> > > [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces at base3.freestandards.org]On
Behalf
> > > Of Prince P
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:05 AM
> > > To: printing-architecture at base3.freestandards.org
> > > Subject: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer
> > > specific data
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can anyone tell how we can convert xhtml-print data to printer
> > > specific data ? I had searched the whole web, but couldn't get any
> > > useful info.
> > > 
> > > Please help me
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Prince
> > > 
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