Re: [Gimp-print-devel] timeline on rinkj release

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:52:03 -0800
   From: Raph Levien <ra...@ac...>

      I just wanted to update you guys on the timeline for the release of
   the rinkj code. My friends at Artifex (the people who license
   GhostScript) are busy shaking down the printer manufacturers to see if
   they are interested in funding the work. After four weeks, we're going
   to see if there's a compelling business reason _not_ to release as
   GPL, then almost certainly go ahead.

Well, let's hope that the result is positive.  What could we do to
maximize the probability of a favorable (to the free software/open
source community) outcome?

      In the meantime, I'm going to keep hacking on the driver,
   concentrating on tunability for the RGB->CMYK conversion. Thus, when
   the code is released, it should be in pretty good shape. One of the
   things I'm seriously considering is building a web-accessible database
   of profiles for all the printer/resolution/mode/paper combinations.
   That should be fun!

Is there any kind of interface improvement that you would require that
if we were to implement ahead of time would assist you?  What I refer
to specifically is changes to the call sequence to the print function
or anything else defined in print.h (or in the less formal interface
between the print functions and the dither functions, which needs to
be tightened up) that would be of general applicability?

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