IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Fonts, Job Redirection, and Protocol

Re: IPP> Fonts, Job Redirection, and Protocol

Randy Turner (rturner@sharplabs.com)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:50:31 -0500

Bill Hastings wrote:
>
> I'm fairly new to IPP so please excuse any "dumb" questions.
>
> 1) How can a client determine what fonts are available (built-in) in a
> PostScript Printer?

Yeah! What ever happened to the GET-FONTS operation ;)

>
> 2) Is there an appropriate mechanism for redirecting a job after it has
> been sent to a printer? The only thing I can come up with is to save a
> copy of the job data on the client side, cancel the current job in
> progress, and resend the job to a new printer

Redirection of a job after it has been sent to the
printer must be done "out-of-band" to IPP 1.0. It might
be something to consider on a future rev. of the protocol.

..snip..

Randy

>
> Bill Hastings
> RBI Software Systems
> bhastings@rbi.com