That's sensible behavior for the standard as applicable to printers. Is
there a recommendation for client behavior? It seems like clients should
prefer PDF since that should be smaller on the wire,
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 12:51 PM Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards
Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
> Good question, Sean. The reason for this is to set a baseline for
> interoperability. Some clients may not support PDF. So all Clients and
> Printers are required to support PWG Raster as a bare minimum. That way,
> there will always be some common document format that both can fall back to.
>> Smith
>>>> > On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Sean Kau via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
> >
> > Question about the IPP Everywhere specification:
> >
> > Why do we require that printers support PWG-Raster if it can accept
> PDF? Is this to improve compatibility with clients? I tried to look
> through the archives and couldn't find any commentary.
> >
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