IFX Mail Archive: Re: IPP> MOD - Ok to add 'image/tiff' and 'application/pdf' to IPP/1.1 Mod el document format list?

Re: IPP> MOD - Ok to add 'image/tiff' and 'application/pdf' to IPP/1.1 Mod el document format list?

Ron Bergman (rbergma@dpc.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:40:28 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Tom,

A good suggestion!

Ron Bergman
Dataproducts Corp.

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Hastings, Tom N wrote:

> To help clarify the value for the "document-format" attribute in IPP for use
> with Internet FAX, I suggest that we add the value:
>
> 'image/tiff' - Tag Image Format - see IANA MIME Media Type registry
>
> Also Portable Document Format is becoming prevalent enough. I suggest also
> adding the following value to the list in the Model document:
>
> 'application/pdf' - Portable Document Format - see IANA MIME Media
> Type registry
>
> ok?
>
>
>
> 'mimeMediaType'
> The 'mimeMediaType' attribute syntax is the Internet Media Type (sometimes
> called MIME type) as defined by RFC 2046 [RFC2046] and registered according
> to the procedures of RFC 2048 [RFC2048] for identifying a document format.
> The value MAY include a charset parameter, depending on the specification of
> the Media Type in the IANA Registry [IANA-MT]. Although most other IPP
> syntax types allow for only lower-cased values, this syntax type allows for
> mixed-case values which are case-insensitive.
> Examples are:
> 'text/html': An HTML document
> 'text/plain': A plain text document in US-ASCII (RFC 2046 indicates
> that in the absence of the charset parameter MUST mean US-ASCII rather than
> simply unspecified) [RFC2046].
> 'text/plain; charset=US-ASCII': A plain text document in US-ASCII
> [52, 56].
> 'text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1': A plain text document in ISO
> 8859-1 (Latin 1) [ISO8859-1].
> 'text/plain; charset=utf-8': A plain text document in ISO 10646
> represented as UTF-8 [RFC2044]
> 'text/plain, charset=iso-10646-ucs-2': A plain text document in ISO
> 10646 represented in two octets (UCS-2) [ISO10646-1]
> 'application/postscript': A PostScript document [RFC2046]
> 'application/vnd.hp-PCL': A PCL document [IANA-MT] (charset escape
> sequence embedded in the document data)
> 'application/octet-stream': Auto-sense - see below
>
> Tom Hastings
> (310) 333-6413
>
>