[Kde-print-devel] Fwd: [Printing Foomatic] The Linux Foundation is Hiring Students/Interns for Implementing the PDF Printing Workflow

[Gavin Beatty]

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From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2007 17:24
Subject: [Printing Foomatic] The Linux Foundation is Hiring
Students/Interns for Implementing the PDF Printing Workflow
To: printing-foomatic at lists.linux-foundation.org


One of the decisions which was made on the OSDL Printing Summit in
Atlanta last year and widely accepted by all participants was to switch
the standard print job transfer format from PostScript to PDF. This
format has many important advantages, especially

* PDF is the common platform-independent web format for printable
   documents
* Portable
* Easy post-processing (N-up, booklets, scaling, ...)
* Easy Color management support
* Easy High color depth support (> 8bit/channel)
* Easy Transparency support
* Smaller files
* Linux workflow gets closer to Mac OS X

To turn this into reality work is needed in many components of the
printing infrastructure. The japanese team of the OpenPrinting work
group has already the needed CUPS filters in their Subversion repositories.

What is still missing is to make the universal print filter foomatic-rip
(most printer drivers are integrated into the printing system with this
filter) handling PDF input and to make the built-in printer drivers of
Ghostscript also working with other renderers than Ghostscript, like
XPDF/Poppler for example.

These two projects are now open for students or interns. If you like to
take one of these challenges, go to the detailed project description
and/or contact Till Kamppeter (till.kamppeter at gmail.com).

If you know someone who could be interested, please forward this
message. Please spread this message also on other lists, forums, ...

    Till

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