[Printing-architecture] Common Printing Dialog: PPD extension specs updated
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 08:50:48 PDT 2008
Hi,
after the conference call last week with Peter Sikking and the two GSoC
students implementing the dialog and after some discussion with Mike
Sweet from CUPS I have updated the specs of the PPD extensions:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PPDExtensions
I have done the following changes:
- Replaced the "*OPQuickPresets" keyword by "*APPrinterPreset" as
defined in the CUPS PPD extensions on
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/spec-ppd.html#APPrinterPreset
- Mentioned that UI texts of PPDs should not be too long due to limited
space in the dialog.
- Mentioned that a PPD cannot have more that 11 tags.
- Allow tags for options which are not in the PPD (like CUPS options)
- Allow canceling tags (like the predefined tags coming from CUPS
options).
- Added section about CUPS options and their pre-defined tags
- Added new "donthide1choice" widget hint to not suppress an option
when it has only one choice.
I appreciate very much your comments, especially about the tags for the
CUPS options and additional document types for the "*APPrinterPreset"
keyword.
I think with these extensions we should be well approaching the final
specs for the PPD extensions.
Till
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