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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Ira,<div><br><div><div>On May 21, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ira McDonald <<a href="mailto:blueroofmusic@gmail.com">blueroofmusic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I agree with Bill's comments.<br><br></div>I suggest that the Implementors Guide should document that the intended<br></div>meaning of 'attempted' in RFC 2911 was and is 'best-effort'. There is no<br>
</div>wiggle room in RFC 2911 (page 139), in my reading, that the Printer can<br>say 'attempted' and then NOT make the attempt.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The wiggle room is that the printer can make the attempt and fail, leading to inconsistent results and (likely) no logging of/state changes for the issue. But if we can document things properly in the Implementor's Guide I think we'll be in a lot better shape.</div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, I don't think it would be hard to support 'guaranteed' for JPEG or PWG Raster, but PDF is another matter... :/</div><div><br></div><div>(and older PDLs like PostScript and PCL are a lost cause for that sort of thing...)</div><div><br></div><div>
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