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Ron, thanks for the effort. I haven't had a change to more than scan your documents yet but I will make sure these get some exposure during the f2f. Very sorry you can't make it! ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis IBM Printing Systems ---------------------------------------------- <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td>Ron.Bergman@Hitachi-hkis.com Sent by: owner-ifx@pwg.org 06/10/2002 07:31 PM <td>                To:        IFX@pwg.org         cc:                 Subject:        IFX> Analysis of Using IPP Attributes for TIFF-FX.        </table> <tt>I have attached three documents created as a part of my analysis. </tt> <tt>UIF-Analysis.pdf  This is a summary of the TIFF Tags and their functions that are currently defined in the UIF specification.  This document should provide a useful reference for any discussion in the meeting. </tt> <tt>TIFF2IPP.pdf  This is my proposal for the additional attributes and values required to provide the current functionality available in TIFF.  The actual attribute specifications are not included in this document, but they can easily be generated based upon the information in this document.  If this proposal is accepted by the group, I would be glad to generate the initial attribute definitions. </tt> <tt>DSN-Media-Features.pdf  A summary of the DSN/MDN Feature Extensions. I looked at several other alternatives to see if there were any other alternatives to TIFF that would be a reasonable substitute.  This document provides the closest match. Others that I looked at include MIME types and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  In addition to the fact that none of these specifications provide a good match, any of these would require the support of another protocol and encoding very different than IPP. </tt> <tt>Use of IPP attributes in place of TIFF has two major issues. </tt> <tt>1) A fairly large number of IPP attributes and values will be required to fully support the TIFF functionality.  I believe that a prudent analysis of the need for the current set of TIFF requirements will reduce this number to a more reasonable level.</tt> <tt>2) IPP attributes cannot easily support Mixed Raster Content (MRC).  The need for MRC support needs to be carefully examined.</tt> <tt>I was not able to obtain approval to attend the Portland meeting so I hope someone will volunteer to lead the discussion on this topic.  The IPP method appears to be a reasonable approach but I strongly feel that PDF has the potential for the cleanest solution.  However, if there are any concerns or problems with the use of PDF, this would be the next best choice. </tt> <tt>Ron </tt> <tt><<UIF-Analysis.pdf>>  <<TIFF2IPP.pdf>>  <<DSN-Media-Features.pdf>></tt> #### UIF-Analysis.pdf has been removed from this note on June 11 2002 by Harry Lewis #### TIFF2IPP.pdf has been removed from this note on June 11 2002 by Harry Lewis #### DSN-Media-Features.pdf has been removed from this note on June 11 2002 by Harry Lewis