SVG Print (was: Re: Extensions samples)

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

I'm also quite interested in SVG Print. I haven't see much energy behind
the idea recently, though. IMO the two year old working draft would
still need a few improvements. I don't know about any printer
manufacturers supporting SVG though I think Canon is (or was) the
driving force behind this. With printers starting to support BlueTooth
this might become more interesting especially when printing from mobile
devices.
It should be relatively easy to get SVG Print functionality into Batik
with indirect printing through PostScript as there is a PostScript
Transcoder available (coming from the FOP project). Otherwise, you can
simply print to JPS (Java Printing System) by letting Batik render the
SVG to a Graphics2D instance. The elements defined by SVGP should be
easy to add.
Anyway, SVGP is mostly a hobby for me...

On 16.07.2005 23:10:06 Gregory wrote:
> I am also very interested in SVGP. 
> 
> Do you know if some printer manufacturers plan to
> implement SVGP for their printers either natively or
> indirectly (something like SVG -> Postscript ->
> print)?


Jeremias Maerki


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Re: SVG Print

[Thomas DeWeese <Th...@Kodak.com>]

Hi Jeremias,

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> I'm also quite interested in SVG Print. I haven't see much energy behind
> the idea recently, though. IMO the two year old working draft would
> still need a few improvements. I don't know about any printer
> manufacturers supporting SVG though I think Canon is (or was) the
> driving force behind this. 

    HP also made some non-trivial contributions.

> With printers starting to support BlueTooth this might become more 
> interesting especially when printing from mobile devices.

    Gosh I hope so, but everyone seems to be running down the
XHTML Print path which is ok for really dumb generators who just
want to get a page of text out but for anything with real
graphical content (or really anything with any structure to it)
XHTML/CSS Basic is a total mine field (just look at the web).

> It should be relatively easy to get SVG Print functionality into Batik
> with indirect printing through PostScript as there is a PostScript
> Transcoder available (coming from the FOP project). Otherwise, you can
> simply print to JPS (Java Printing System) by letting Batik render the
> SVG to a Graphics2D instance. The elements defined by SVGP should be
> easy to add.

    Yes adding print support to the transcoders should be fairly
trivial (mostly just a matter of adding a loop and 'faking' an
appropriate SVG element for the page in question).  Adding it to
Squiggle (the browser) would be a bit tricker, as you would probably
want the ability to show thumbnails and traverse links etc...

    Still I don't think it would be a huge task, it strikes me as
a sort of Collage 'Final Project' type thing - about a semesters
worth of work.

> Anyway, SVGP is mostly a hobby for me...

    Yes.

> On 16.07.2005 23:10:06 Gregory wrote:
> 
>>I am also very interested in SVGP. 
>>
>>Do you know if some printer manufacturers plan to
>>implement SVGP for their printers either natively or
>>indirectly (something like SVG -> Postscript ->
>>print)?
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki
> 
> 
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