Scalable Consumption
Next generation kernel technology is incorporated at the heart of Global Graphics’ next generation RIP and PDL solutions and these can be used together to provide a scalable consumption solution, providing greatest fidelity across your product lines. Some typical scalable consumption scenarios are outlined below.
eDocument Library can be used to provide a scalable consumption solution, whereby the content is optimized within a print job to improve downstream performance, either by reducing the amount of data that needs to be communicated, or by optimizing, positioning and referencing of specific assets within the streamed container to ensure the device can consume the print stream in the most efficient manner. Some examples of this technique include:
- Detecting image fragments and recombining into a single image to optimize resource caching
- Detecting duplicate resources and replacing with resource references
- Modeling of resource usage for optimal use of discard control
- Font optimization including sub-setting and replacement support for device resident fonts where appropriate
This option allows the printer vendor to take the advantage of native XPS rendering on the printer controller board using Global Graphics’ Embedded RIP technology, while minimizing the resources on that device. A component is included within the filters in the XPSDrv print pipeline that is capable of recognizing structures that the print controller may not be able to handle, and that component simplifies them, while retaining the same visual appearance. The Harlequin PLUS Host Renderer SDK is also used in this scalable consumption solution to pre-process parts of an input print stream, as necessary, before sending on a modified version of the print stream to the downstream device. For example, the scalable consumption component could selectively flatten graphical elements that use transparency in an XPS document on the host, and reconstruct the document using the flattened elements rather than the original ones.
