IFX Mail Archive: IFX> Conf Call Summary

IFX> Conf Call Summary

From: Gail Songer (gsonger@peerless.com)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 15:27:54 EST

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    Next meeting will be Friday March 21 at 10am Pacific.

     

     

    Topics for March 14, 2003:

    1) Media size. What limitations do we want to place on image width and
    scaling?

    Resolution: IPPFax: Paper size is unbounded in PFD/is. The Receiver
    MAY scale down at most 10% (PDF/is may prohibit this scaling), overflow
    to another page, or truncate. If the Receiver does truncate then it
    must notify the Receiving user. The Receiving user MUST be able to
    support A4/Letter at a minimum.

     

    Crop boxes SHOULD be used when the producer knows that the imaginable
    region is less than media size. If the crop box is the union of lesser
    size of Letter and A4 minus ¼ of inch, then the producer can be sure
    that the majority of consumers can print the image. However, this does
    mean that there is the possibly that data may lost.

     

    2) Page order. If the Producing device scans pages in a non-sequential
    order (all page fronts first, then page backs, for example), how do we
    want to indicate this (if at all) in the Document? Resolution: Add a new
    keyword to the beginning of the PDF/is which would allow the Consumer to
    modify its behavior. For example, if the Producer scans all the fronts
    and then all backs, the keyword would allow the Consumer to print in
    simplex (thereby allowing the User to reorder) or prompt the user to
    reinsert the stack, upside down, so that the Consumer can print to the
    back of the previously imaged pages. Each Page object will indicate
    which page this object represents.

    3) Rob: For today's meeting, I would like to add PDF/is "structuring" to
    the agenda. The 's' in PDF/is means that all the objects needed to image
    a page come together in the file, between the page object for one page
    and the page object for the next. Beyond that, there is the exact order
    of the resource, content, image, etc. objects for the page. The current
    draft has a proposal, which I would like to discuss from the standpoint
    of expectations of writer and reader behavior. (Rob: can you please send
    your issues so that we many ponder the implications)

    4) Sender-URI Stamps.

    5) Coloring of attributes based on compression. (Resolutions)

     

    Kari's issue: Resolution: Length SHOULD be before the image. Consumer
    MUST be able to able to accept in either order. If the length is after
    the image, then must add the ID key from the file trailer as a comment
    after the length. Similar to mime methodology of determining end of
    include. (This is only an issue when reading a doc that is up-version
    and a new image format is unknown)

     

    ToDo: Walk through references section and split into
    Normative-v-Informative

     

    OpenIssues: IP issues

     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gail Songer
    Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:51 PM
    To: ifx@pwg.org
    Subject: IFX> Conf Call Summary

     

    Next meeting is Friday March 14 at 10am

    Summary:

    Media Sizes supported. Width: Intersection of A4 and letter. Clip box ¼
    inch in from each side. If won't fit on renderer's page, can scale
    image (require isomorphic scaling) and must notify the receiving user.
    --- What about length? In the Feb 25 call we had pondered not bounding
    the length of a page an allowing the device to split the image across
    pages.

    Resolution: Require a min/max?

                    In the data - min and max in the data stream, not
    discrete values, but ranges are ok. 300 pdi min. 1200 max.

                    On the output device - 300 min. No maximum.

                    Image must be +- a point of the original size. (not per
    inch, per object)

    Required ColorSpace(s) - Require the device to support sRGB and gray
    gama 2.2; the sender can pick either of the two but MUST include the
    profile in the pdf/is data stream

     

    Only thing left to negotiate is buffer size....Just pick a size and then
    not negotiate. Put a stake at 4meg and turn during interop.. Remove
    memory size attribute

     

    Still open:

                Sender-URI Stamps.

          Coloring of attributes based on compression. (Resolutions)

    ToDo:

          Walk through references section and split into
    Normative-v-Informative

     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gail Songer
    Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:01 PM
    To: 'ifx@pwg.org'
    Subject: Conf Call Summary

    Today's Conference Call Summary:

     

    Drop Flate from list of pdfis-compressions-supported (this used to be
    pdfis-profiles-supported)

    Make Masking mandatory for the receiver.

    Require both the sender and the receiver to support and use Banding.
    Drop support for Tiling.

    Color-space will be ICC with only the sRGP color profile. A pdfis
    device wouldn't have to process the profile, but the inclusion of the
    profile in the datastream would allow a PDF reader to process the
    document.

     

    Coloring by pdfis compression schemes:

                No longer need the following attributes:

    pdfis-compressions-supported (all compressions are required)

    pdfis-color-spaces-supported (only one colorspace)

    pdfis-data-encryption-supported (encryption types do not very based on
    compression)

    pdfis-cache-size-k-octets-supported (we will just pick a single required
    number)

    pdfis-orientation-supported - all images will be in landscape.

     

    Still Open:

                Media Sizes supported. Width: Intersection of A4 and letter.
    Clip box ¼ inch in from each side. If won't fit in renderer, can scale
    image (required isomorphic scaling) and must notifiy the receiving user.

                Resolution: Require a min/max?

                    In the data - min and max in the data stream, not
    discrete values, but ranges or ok. 300 pdi min. 1200 max.

                    On the output device - 300 min. No maximum.

                    Image must be +- a point of the original size. (not per
    inch, per object)

                Sender-URI Stamps.

          Coloring of attributes based on compression. (Resolutions)

          Required ColorSpace(s) - sRGB and gray gama 2.2

     

    Only thing left to negotiate is buffer size....Just pick a size and then
    not negotiate 4meg. No memory size attribute

    ToDo:

          Walk through references section and split into
    Normative-v-Informative

     

     

     



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