IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> ipp & tiff

Re: IPP> ipp & tiff

AlBrahme (albrahme@byas.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 07:10:51 +0000

Scott Isaacson wrote:
>
> When you say "The tiff format currently accepted by ipp is too broad" do
> you mean that one of the enums for the "document-format" attribute is "
> 'langTIFF': 40 - Tagged Image File Format (Aldus)"??
>
> If so, please propose a new enum value and describe it (provide its
> semantics) and I am sure that it can be added to the list in the Printer MIB
> as well as the list in IPP since they are supposed to be the same list!!
>
> Once you do that, then an instance of an IPP Printer could implement the
> "document-formats-supported" attribute and set the value to this new value
> that you propose which is in the standard. This is how an "an ipp
> server which can accept only a TIFF-F format can convey
> this capability information to an ipp client."
>
> Scott
>

Thanks for your reply. I propse the following enum for TIFF-F.

langTIFF_F (47) -- the Tagged Image File Format adopted for fax
(TIFF-F) by
ietf_fax working group and specified in the ietf
draft
published by them

thanks
/al