| UPDF Minutes Hawaii |
| Sandra Matts | Hewlett-Packard |
| Lee Farrell | Canon |
| Harry Lewis | IBM |
| Brian Batchelder | Hewlett-Packard |
| Jan Idomir | Hewlett-Packard |
| Bill Wagner | DPI |
| Michael Wu | Eastman Kodak Co. |
| Raymond Balmes | Oce |
| Michael Yeung | Canon |
| Don Criscione | Xionics |
| Henrik Holst | i-data |
| Grant Gilmour | Qmaster Software |
| Rick Yardumian | Xerox |
| Eric Random | Peerless |
| Abdallah Qaisi | Apple |
| Ron Bergman | Dataproducts |
| Don Wright | Lexmark |
| Laurie Lasslo | Hewlett-Packard |
| The group worked online with the requirements document. Current version of the
requirements document is at ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/upd/Archive/Requirements/UPDF_SRS.doc
or ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/upd/Archive/Requirements/UPDF_SRS.pdf |
| Abdallah Qaisi gave an informative presentation on Apple’s new printing system architecture for the next version of Mac OS. Apple is re-designing their print subsystem for the next version of Mac OS. This is the first time in several years that a re-design this extensive has been done. The end result is that printer drivers will be much easier to develop especially if the printer language is PostScript. PostScript support is built-in into the system. If the printer vendor wants a raster driver (non-PS), then additional work will have to be done. However there is an SDK that defines the interface for the printer vendor. The new design should reduce printer driver development time from months or years to days. More details will be available during the WWDC in May 1999. |
| Xionics presented an architecture they use internally to support several PDLs and several languages with one code base. They call their architecture System Independent Data. It supports PCL5e, PCL6, CaPSL, PostScript, ESC/P, ESC/P2, and Printgear. They also use it to develop drivers Win 3.1, Win 9x, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, and OS/2. Don’s slides are here: |
| The group decided on a preliminary division of categories for the specification of the
UPDF. They are Font handling, Paper handling, Color management, Localization,
Communication, User Interface, Callback mechanism, Device capabilities, and PDL. The
intent is to have the sub-groups meet during the week of the PWG meeting. We didn’t
specify any time to meet during the next meeting in Miami yet. It was decided at the
meeting that the group will also have a phone conference every other Tuesday to discuss
the specification. This way people who cannot attend a particular sub-group can use the
phone conference to keep up with the work. The phone conference time is 10-12 Pacific on Feb 2 and 16. |
| Specification is at www.w3.org/xml XML FAQ is at www.ucc.ie./xml Tim Bray’s annotated XML spec: www.xml.com/xml/pub/axml/axmlinto.html Robin Cover’s XML site: www.sil.org/sgml/xml.html Contains a large number of links to every XML resource XML info: www.xmlinfo.com Seybold site: www.xml.com XML Software: www.xmlsoftware.com |
| UPDF Web page is up and is at www.pwg.org/upd/index.html Update Web page with links to the XML information we have gathered so far. One good book that appears to be popular is "XML Black Book" by Natanya Pitts-Moultis, Cheryl Kirk. ISBN is 157610284X As an initial effort it was suggested we code the current GPD and PPD format into XML to see how it works. |
| UPDF Chairperson: Sandra Matts - Hewlett-Packard Email: sandram@boi.hp.com Mail list is upd@pwg.org FTP archive is ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg PWG web site is www.pwg.org Meetings schedule for 1999 is at www.pwg.org/chair/meet99.html |
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