[IPP] Request for new "finishings" keywords for Swedish hole punch pattern

[IPP] Request for new "finishings" keywords for Swedish hole punch pattern

Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) smith.kennedy at hp.com
Tue Jul 12 19:12:53 UTC 2016


Greetings,

I'm going to echo back the plan we discussed today in the IPP WG.  From what I took to understand, the plan was like so:

- No new enum value 'punch-triohalning-top' etc. to be defined for "finishings"
- Define a keyword / name "variant extension convention" for "finishing-template" names to allow variants to be created for defined keywords

Thus, to support Swedish Trio Binder (Triohålning) punch pattern, the Printer would list an entry in "finishings-col-database" and possibly "finishings-col-ready" where "finishing-template" would be set to something like 'punch-quad-left_trio-binder', with an appropriate localized string corresponding to that, and with all the "finishings-col" member attributes describing the appropriate punch locations. Below is an example of how the Trio Binder and European 4 ring patterns would be represented in discrete "finishings-col-ready" listings:

finishings-col-ready=
{
  finishing-template=punch-quad-left_trio-binder
  media-size-name=iso_a4_210x297mm
  media-size={x-dimension=21000 y-dimension=29700}
  punching=
  {
    punching-reference-edge=left,
    punching-offset=1200
    punching-locations=9250,11350,14850,16950
  }
},
{
  finishing-template=punch-quad-left_a4-european-4-ring
  media-size-name=iso_a4_210x297mm
  media-size={x-dimension=21000 y-dimension=29700}
  punching=
  {
    punching-reference-edge=left,
    punching-offset=1200
    punching-locations=2850,10850,18850,26850
  }
},


The naming convention proposed is to separate the "keyword" or "base name" from the "subtype name" with an underscore.  Reading even the latest revision of 2911 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sweet-rfc2911bis-09), it isn't clear to me that there is precedent for this convention.  If such conventions are used in other contexts, please share so that I can leverage that / those conventions in my updates to Finishings 2.1.

Cheers,

Smith

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    Smith Kennedy
    Wireless Architect - Client Software - IPG-PPS
    Standards - IEEE ISTO PWG / Bluetooth SIG / Wi-Fi Alliance / NFC Forum / USB IF
    Chair, IEEE ISTO Printer Working Group
    HP Inc.
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> On 2016-07-11, at 9:56 AM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2016-07-07, at 7:27 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Smith,
>> 
>>> On Jul 6, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> HP Inc. requests the addition of 4 "finishings" keywords to support the Swedish "Triohålning" de-facto hole punch standard, as described here:
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punch#Sweden <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punch#Sweden>
>>> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hålslagsapparat#Svensk_trioh.C3.A5lning <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5lslagsapparat#Svensk_trioh.C3.A5lning>
>>> 
>>> We propose the addition of 4 keywords:
>>> 
>>> "punch-triohalning-top"
>>> "punch-triohalning-left"
>>> "punch-triohalning-right"
>>> "punch-triohalning-bottom"
>>> 
>>> Even though the "-top" and "-bottom" are likely not necessary for standard letter-type (i.e. A4) media sizes, it is conceivable that a user might want this punch pattern on the short edge of an A3 or larger media size, so that is why I'm suggesting we define these 4.
>> 
>> I have a few comments about this:
>> 
>> 1. "finishings" is an enum attribute, "finishing-template" is a keyword (or name) attribute.  I assume you want both registered?
> 
> That is correct - apologies for not being precise.  (And if we don't have anything in place currently to make sure that the set of enum values and keywords match, we probably ought to, since they are strongly related.)
> 
>> 
>> 2. Keywords are supposed to be US English; looks like "trio binder" is the English equivalent of triohålning.
>> 
>> 3. We already have punch-quad-{bottom,left,right,top}, and there are numerous 4-hole punch patterns (four specifically listed on the linked page). In the past we have opted for the enum/keyword to specify an implementation-defined hole pattern, with "finishings-col" providing the explicit control, so I am not super happy about going down this road (I count 15 different hole patterns for 2-7 hole punching on the wikipedia page alone).
> 
> Let me preface by saying I would have preferred to only pursue a solution that uses finishings-col, but unfortunately there seem to be quite a few laggards in this space that still depend on "finishings".  When "finishings-col" is employed, you can give the "finishings-template" value any value you want, because it becomes simply an identifier to be used to look up a string out of the strings catalog.
> 
>> 
>> 4. From a practical standpoint, will finishers needing this support arbitrary 4-hole punch patterns, or will this be specific to a finisher that is sold/marketed solely in Sweden and nearby countries? If the latter, it seems like keeping the current (generic) punch-quad-xxx is sufficient for "finishings", with "finishings-col" providing explicit intent.
> 
> I understand and sympathize with your worry about needless enum / keyword definitions.  But it struck me that the current keywords  definitions ("punch-quad-left") are really ambiguous as far as intent. Is that not a concern?
> 
> 
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