IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP>MOD - missing job template attributes

Re: IPP>MOD - missing job template attributes

Jim Walker (walker@dazel.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:17:28 -0500

At 12:41 PM 7/18/97 -0700, Robert Herriot wrote:
>
>> From rdebry@us.ibm.com Fri Jul 18 10:39:24 1997
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Orientation (portrait or landscape)
>
>This is suitable for conversion, e.g. text to PostScript but not
>for printing PostScript directly. We dropped it when we dropped
>all text conversion attributes, under the assumption that we would
>not specify attributes that deal with conversion issues.

I disagree that `orientation' is not useful for printing PostScript
directly... remember that we also support `number-up'. In the case
of number-up > 1, orientation can be a very useful hint for ordering
the logical pages on a physical page. If you do not believe me, then
apply some naive number-up code to a portrait and a landscape document,
and look at the results.

This is admittably on the low 20% end of the solution scale, but it *is*
important as a hint if you are really going to support number-up processing.

...walker

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Jim Walker <walker@dazel.com>
System Architect/DAZEL Wizard
DAZEL Corporation, Austin, TX