Hi,
XPS - I agree with Mike that it's not appropriate as a required document
format for IPP right now. But it *is* being formally standardized in ECMA
Technical Committee 46:
http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC46.htm
And their current draft 1.2 is much improved from the earlier drafts
- worth watching.
Cheers,
- Ira
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> Whittle, Craig wrote:
>>>>>> All:
>>>>>> The minutes from the IPPv2 Camas, WA face-to-face meeting can be found at:
>>>>>>ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/ippv2-minutes/08AUG-Camas-IPPv2-face-to-face.pdf>> Feedback on meeting notes:
>> 1. Just to be clear, the consensus was to remove the
> document-format requirements entirely?
>> 2. WRT XPS, it is patent-encumbered and not covered by any
> existing ISO, IETF, PWG, or W3C standards. It may make a
> fine high-level PDL, but IMHO it isn't a good fit for a
> required document-format.
>> 3. WRT BMLinkS, this is the first I have heard of it. The
> web site indicates modest adoption by Japanese vendors,
> and as best as I can tell from the documentation
> everything is passed as TIFF files, which are a nightmare
> to support thanks to the thousands of possible varients
> you'll run into...
>> 4. CUPS doesn't define required formats, but it does implement
> a lot of them. I'm more than happy to write up a spec
> for this, though...
>> --
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