From: <thu...@co...> - 2001-03-03 20:36:30
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> A new format seems to be the $64K question. A lot of > people have talked about a replacement to PPD, and about > PPDs shortcomings. The most frequent suggestion is some > form of XML format, and I know Grant Taylor is modifying > foomatic to produce an XML format. Is any standards org > working on a printer description file format to replace > PPDs? The only thing I know of is the UPDF format that the Printer Working Group was developing. I believe we had discussed this in the past. I really don't too much about it at this beyond the fact that it is XML-based. Last time I checked, it was "not ready for human consumption". But, I haven't really looked into this in awhile. Thomas |