| UPDF Minutes Miami |
| Sandra Matts | Hewlett-Packard |
| Lee Farrell | Canon |
| Craig Whittle | Sharp Labs |
| Chuck Adams | Tektronix |
| Jan Idomir | Hewlett-Packard |
| Ben Brezinski | Hewlett-Packard |
| Norbert Schade | Xionics |
| Matt Howell | Hewlett-Packard |
| Michael Yeung | Canon |
| Rick Yardumian | Xerox |
| Steve Schwartz | Peerless |
| Don Wright | Lexmark |
| Microsoft has decided not to participate further in the UPDF effort. They believe they have technology (GPD) which delivers the required functionality and will work on enhancing GPD only. |
| The group reviewed Norbert's proposal concerning types of tags and virtual units and
other aspects of what should be in a UPDF. The proposal is located
at:
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| During the last meeting it was decided to create an XML version of current
functionality of other printer description files such as PPD. The intent was to see if XML
is the proper language to use. If it turns out that XML is a good fit, then this document
can be our start for the UPDF specification. Michael Yeung from Canon did this work and
presented the first version at this meeting. The result is that XML is a very good fit and
we will use to specify the UPDF specification. Here is the actual initial (version 0.4)
specification in word format: It was noted the main goal of the UPDF is to be better and more improved than current technology. |
| There will be three groups to continue the UPDF specification. They are Global, User
Interface, Imaging. Each group will meet during the PWG conference week. User Interface
will meet immediately after the Plenery for the day. The Imaging subgroup will meet on
Thursday and the Global meeting will take place during the UPDF main meeting. The idea is
that progress made during the User Interface and Imaging meeting can be reported and
folded into the Global meeting on Friday. The group worked on the Global section from the
UPDF specification and made a few minor modifications. The feeling from the group is that
the initial Printer.header definition is complete with the needed information. I will send
out the document as soon as Mike Y. makes the editing changes. The group then prioritized the tasks for the User Interface and Imaging groups. The group wanted to make sure the subgroups had well-defined tasks for version 1 of the UPDF spec. User Interface prioritization: P1: Localization and resource P2: Constraints and installable options P3: Vendor extensions and widgets Imaging prioritization: P1: Paper handling and PDL order P2: Fonts and graphics P3: Callback mechanism and color ISSUE: Should a checksum element be included in the spec. The checksum may be a component of the UPD and not the UPDF. It's up to the UPD to implement any checksum or merging of UPDF. |
| The phone conference time is 10-12 Pacific on March 16 and 30. Phone number is: (612)
315-6802 and the access code is: 058459494. Implementation Guide for each operating system for the Universal Printer Driver. We are only writing the Format specification that will enable a UPD to be written. Long term deliverable due: Denmark / Alaska timeframe. Implementation Guide for protocols. IPP / ??? Due: ??? White paper for printing architectures in MacOs and Unix. |
| 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 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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