Re: [Foomatic] Printer driver UI [proposal]

From: Robert L Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>
To: jsmeix suse de
Cc: goffioul imec be, kpfeifle danka de, kde-print kde org, till kamppeter gmx net, mike easysw com, foomatic-devel linuxprinting org, gimp-print-devel lists sourceforge net, gnome-print-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Foomatic] Printer driver UI [proposal]
Date: Thu Mar 13 21:01:31 2003

   Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:48:17 +0100 (CET)
   From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix suse de>

   > My first idea was to put the XML data in comments at the end of
   > the PPD file, as Foomatic did. This is compliant with PPD specs.

   It is only syntactically compliant with PPD specs. but this way you
   could have any proprietary format and call it a PPD file because
   you could hide all information as comments.

Agreed, which is why we either need a new description format or a
standardized extension to PPD files.

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References:
- Re: [Foomatic] Printer driver UI [proposal]
  - From: Johannes Meixner

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