[Printing-architecture] Job Tickets in PDF Files - see CUPS/1.4

[Till Kamppeter]

Ira McDonald wrote:
> ** Embedding Job Tickets in PDF Files **
> 
>         CUPS/1.4 Beta Support
> 
> - STR#2903 - 3 September 2008
> 
> - "%cupsJobTicket:" comments at top of PDF files
> 
> - Open printing should consider adopting this as
>   an OP Standard
> 

In principle this is a good idea, but if you look into the English 
translation of the OP Japan minutes, they tell that on the Cairo 
developer conference it was talked about embedding printing meta data as 
an object in PDF files.

> - A possible GSoC 2009 project could be JTAPI
>   support for this format
> 

Yes, good idea.

> - Also, since it complements base PDF standards
>   (ISO PDF/A, PWG PDF/is), perhaps the PWG would
>   adopt it as a PWG Candidate Standard (with a PWG
>   namespace prefix, rather than CUPS)?
> 

Good idea, too.

    Till