Re: Proposed F19 Feature: CUPS 1.6

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> = Features/CUPS1.6 =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CUPS1.6
> 
> Feature owner(s):  Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jiri Popelka 
> <jpopelka@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> 
> Update CUPS to the latest upstream release and use PDF rather than
> PostScript as baseline document format.

Yay. Thanks for doing this. I'd be delighted to beta-test some of this
work on large-format epson printers.

My questions:

1) is there a way to test just the cups-1.6 stuff on F18? Or will
people who want to help with this effort be running rawhide? 

2) will there be a way to parallel install current-1.5 with the beta-1.6
stack?

3) in "how to test" there is no mention of print quality regressions. 
I'm concerned that in the effort to sync with cups-1.6 and upstream,
mostly just the mechanics of finding a printer and getting a
page out are being tested.

This is just scratching the surface. How are you going to evaluate
quality? I'm concerned about the rasterization changes, the filter
changes. Hopefully 1.6 may solve some of the image-quality regressions
I've been seeing. 

4) In the past, I've found it difficult to debug cups filters step by
step. Especially with so many rasterization/filter changes. As part of
the move to 1.6, will things like:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems

be updated? I would love it if issues like "what driver am I using"
could be re-integrated into the UI, or perhaps an admin level of the
ui. Also, "what filters did I run to get to this point of output" in a
log file.

Will the "running cups filters" by hand thing be updated? 

5) integration with common printing dialog. (IMHO localhost:631). 
I think integrating Fedora's print dialogs with the wider user
communities on macos and ubuntu would be very useful.

best,
Benjamin

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