IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Revision of section 4.2.6 multiple-document-handling

Re: IPP> Revision of section 4.2.6 multiple-document-handling

Jay Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Tue, 28 Oct 1997 19:43:25 -0500

Good point, Tom. No need to define new terms.

...jay

Tom Hastings wrote:
>
> Instead of introducing the new term "imposed page", how about
> using the term "impression", which we have an attribute that counts
> them. We ought to defined "impression" though in place of "imposed page"
> in section 12.2.5.
>
> Tom
>
> At 21:13 10/23/1997 PDT, Stephen Zilles wrote:
> >[The terminology in this section seems to muddle "document" meaning
> >document data and "document" meaning what has finishing operations
> >applied to it. For this reason the entire section has been redone.]
> >
> >The current text is:
> >
> > 4.2.6 multiple-document-handling (type2 keyword)
> >
> > This job attribute is relevant only if a job consists of two
> > or more documents. It controls finishing operations, and job-
> > sheet placement. When the copies attribute exceeds 1, it
> > also controls the order of documents.
> >
> > Standard values are:
> >
> > 'single-document': If the files for the job are a and
> > b, then files a and b SHALL be treated as a single
> > document for finishing operations. The Printer
> > SHALL NOT force each document to start on a new
> > page or new media sheet. If more than one copy is
> > made, the ordering SHALL be a, b, a, b,...., and
> > the Printer SHALL force each copy to start on a
> > new sheet.
> > 'separate-documents-uncollated-copies': If the files
> > for the job are a and b, then each file SHALL be
> > treated as a single document for finishing
> > operations. The Printer shall force each document
> > copy to start on a new sheet. If more than one
> > copy is made, the ordering SHALL be a, a, b, b,
> > ....
> > 'separate-documents-collated-copies': If the files for
> > the job are a and b, then each file SHALL be
> > treated as a single document for finishing
> > operations. The Printer SHALL NOT force each
> > document copy to start on a new sheet. If more
> > than one copy is made, the ordering SHALL be a,
> > b, a, b, ...., and the Printer shall force each
> > document copy to start on a new sheet .
> >
> >
> >[Note the use of "files" instead of "document data" which is used in the
> >operation descriptions in 3.2 and 3.3; the mis-use of "document" noted
> >above and the confusion of pages and media sheets. Nothing is said in
> >these descriptions about the placement of job-sheets. Finally, I do not
> >understand the final case at all; it says "each file SHALL be treated as
> >a single document for finishing operations. The Printer SHALL NOT force
> >each document copy to start on a new sheet. There is no way if parts of
> >two files are place on opposite sides of the same sheet (because of the
> >SHALL NOT) that they will be finished separately. I am also not really
> >sure which use of "document" is being used in the SHALL NOT clause.
> >
> > This suggests the following revision of the section. Note that I had to
> >introduce a somewhat awkward term, "set of media sheets" for the second
> >(mis-) use of "document" above.]
> >
> >
> > 4.2.6 multiple-document-handling (type2 keyword)
> >
> > This job attribute is relevant only if a job consists of two or more
> > documents. The attribute controls finishing operations and the placement
> > of print-stream pages into imposed pages and onto media sheets. When
> > the value of the "copies" attribute exceeds 1, it also controls the
> > order in which the copies that result from processing the documents are
> > produced. For the purposes of this explanations, if "a" represents an
> > instance of document data, then the result of processing the data in
> > document "a" is a sequence of media sheets represented by "a'".
> >
> > Standard values are:
> >
> > 'single-document': If a Job object has multiple documents, say the
> > document data is called a and b, then the result of processing
> > all the document data (a and then b) SHALL be treated as a
> > single sequence of media sheets for finishing operations; that is,
> > finishing would be performed on the concatenation of the
> > seqeunces a',b'. The Printer SHALL NOT force the data in each
> > document instance to be formatted onto a new print-stream
> > page, nor to start a new imposed page or a new media sheet. If
> > more than one copy is made, the ordering of the sets of media
> > sheets resulting from processing the document data SHALL be
> > a', b', a', b',...., and the Printer SHALL force each copy to
> > start on a new media sheet.
> > 'separate-documents-uncollated-copies': If a Job object has
> > multiple documents, say the document data is called a and b,
> > then the result of processing the data in each document
> > instance SHALL be treated as a single sequence of media sheets for
> > finishing operations; that is, the sets a' and b' would each
> > be finished separately. The Printer SHALL force each copy of the
> > result of process the data in a single document to start on a
> > new media sheet. If more than one copy is made, the ordering
> > of the sets of media sheets resulting from processing the
> > document data SHALL be a', a', b', b' ....
> > 'separate-documents-collated-copies': If a Job object has multiple
> > documents, say the document data is called a and b, then the
> > result of processing the data in each document instance SHALL
> > be treated as a single sequence of media sheets for finishing
> > operations; that is, the sets a' and b' would each be finished
> > separately. If more than one copy is made, the ordering of the
> > sets of media sheets resulting from processing the document
> > data SHALL be a', b', a', b', ...., and the Printer SHALL
> > force each document copy to start on a new sheet .
> >
> >
> >[Note that in the last case, the internal conflict in the description
> >noted above was resolved by removing the apparently un-intented SHALL
> >NOT clause. With this change, the last case becomes the same as the
> >first case with respect to ordering and media sheet generation, but
> >different with respect to finishing.]
> >
> >[Note also the this text does not say anything about the placement of
> >job-sheets because the prior text also did not say anything
> >about the placement of job-sheets.]
> >
> >