Harlequin® Plugin Technology
The Harlequin® Plugin Technology provides an easy, modular approach to adding input and output “drivers” to the Harlequin PLUS Server RIP (v8.0). Input plugins provide mechanisms for bringing data into the RIP and for converting non-PostScript® files “on-the-fly” as part of RIP processing. Output plugins provide a mechanism to deliver pages of raster data to an output device or to a file.
Some plugins are supplied as complete modules with the Harlequin RIP. Even more powerful, however, is the ability for OEMs to develop their own specialized plugins using the Harlequin RIP Plugin SDK. The SDK includes detailed developer documentation on writing and integrating plugins, as well as examples of each type of input and output plugin supported by the RIP. These examples can be used by OEMs as a basis for their own plugin development.
