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PWG> RE: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Thu Mar 10 2005 - 09:23:19 EST

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    Hi Prince,

    By "actual print data" do you mean a raster format like
    PCL or a vector format like PDF or something else?

    The XHTML-Print to actual print data conversion is done
    by an "interpreter" (either on the spooler or the target
    printer). Support for printing of HTML documents is
    becoming more common on printers. Typically, a modern
    HTML interpreter can also parse XHTML correctly.

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Prince P [mailto:prince1a@gmail.com]
    Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:59 AM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Cc: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org; pwg@pwg.org
    Subject: Re: How to convert xhtml-print to printer specific data

    Hi Ira,
             Thank you very much for replying. I had gone through the
    spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/ . But it speaks about the xhtml
    standard only. It doesn't says how printers interprets this. Is the
    xhtml-print to actual print data conversion is done through some
    proprietary methods ?

    Anyway thanks for the help Ira

    On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:12:48 -0800, "McDonald, Ira"
    <imcdonald@sharplabs.com> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm forwarding your question to the general discussion list
    > of the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group (PWG), who developed
    > the XHTML-Print standard and then passed it over to the W3C,
    > who adopted it as a W3C Candidate Standard in January 2004:
    >
    > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
    >
    > You might want to take a look at that standard itself.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > - Ira
    >
    > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    > Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    > PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    > phone: +1-906-494-2434
    > email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org
    > [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces@base3.freestandards.org]On Behalf
    > Of Prince P
    > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:05 AM
    > To: printing-architecture@base3.freestandards.org
    > Subject: [Printing-architecture] How to convert xhtml-print to printer
    > specific data
    >
    >
    > Can anyone tell how we can convert xhtml-print data to printer
    > specific data ? I had searched the whole web, but couldn't get any
    > useful info.
    >
    > Please help me
    >
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Prince
    >
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