From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=apple.com; s=mailout2048s; c=relaxed/simple; q=dns/txt; i=@apple.com; t=1449677081; x=2313590681; h=From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-id:To:Cc:MIME-version:Content-type: Content-transfer-encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:In-reply-to:References:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=f2tCVWWJwnqgR5KF7uRD0V2tohRVE+f7gVtCX209si8=; b=0ZWMi7NgTkJPb9vr1w9IqsbVx3X1vRpdKKn5S0UiJ5iLHkxcDqe1kQ12GDM3nF/P JC7XuNkZ18LLCbUedG6NMlexRanCyoGDYOkTUqdQexdcvJBrlRLFPR+0MdM+txnT 2639d5BUKgFFv48DUk30WCWoO3XEDnrn9xAXgVDleVskuUvi2AOc9f+oipF2HLRc FtE19q0rgnxcZODH7Jae2HQj1pOkPG9vj8zLoCuTX9CU2P84rsljnv9tk4OJY9pi vXmw2jqA9WcSdXf7Pg02jQwXIcmboTzu484QCYBNcnaeKh1NxsMsoPYHtD/4/TKD B/nvOOTgmsB82ubP6QkMvQ==; Sender: msweet@apple.com MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\)) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Michael Sweet In-reply-to: <20151209102736.GC16751@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:04:38 -0500 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: <2532643D-680A-493C-8A77-9C0CEF5D283E@apple.com> References: <20151209102736.GC16751@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Contributing braille embosser support List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Samuel Thibault Cc: "printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org" Samuel, This is very cool, thank you! > On Dec 9, 2015, at 5:27 AM, Samuel Thibault = wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > I have been working on braille embosser support for CUPS, so that > embossing a document can be as easy as printing it. I have attached = the > result. >=20 > The principle I have followed is to use the cups architecture to > separate on one hand frontends which turn documents into braille text > (text/vnd.cups-brf) or braille graphics (image/vnd.cups-brf), notably > based on liblouis, and on the other hand backends which emboss braille > text or braille graphics (I have implemented a generic driver which > should work on all embossers, and a driver for the Index embosser = which > I can actually test). >=20 > For now, I have made a separate package, so it is easy to test it > already, but ideally, I would like to see this work integrated into = CUPS > filters, so that blind people don't need to install a separate = package, > but just configure CUPS for their embosser. How should we proceed? > Perhaps first iterate over the packaged version, until the code is = fine > for integration, and then I'll submit a patch against cups-filters? >=20 > Samuel > = _______________________________________________ > Printing-architecture mailing list > Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org > = https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttps-3A__lists.linuxfoundati= on.org_mailman_listinfo_printing-2Darchitecture&d=3DBQICAg&c=3DHw-EJUFt2_D= 9PK5csBJ29kRV40HqSDXWTLPyZ6W8u84&r=3DcelVg12QtW5bvoWXWyIdeQ&m=3DjeSlmoaZFo= vntwF_U0gp292XY4VsyoMEUfKz0PUGsAg&s=3D3XIbVXdJdTkphd6bQFfESaGPKGkmo-h4RVOy= 2MW_slQ&e=3D=20 _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer