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Table of Contents

Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 1

Protocols ................................................................................................................................................... 2

2.1 Formats, Syntactic Conventions, and Common Types ............................................................. 2
2.2 Errors ......................................................................................................................................... 2
2.3 X Print Service Requests ........................................................................................................... 2
2.4 Events ...................................................................................................................................... 11

X Print Attributes .................................................................................................................................... 13

3.1 Attribute Value Defaults And Validation................................................................................ 13
3.2 Server Attributes...................................................................................................................... 14
3.3 Printer Attributes ..................................................................................................................... 14
3.4 Job Attributes........................................................................................................................... 17
3.5 Document Attributes ............................................................................................................... 17
3.6 Page Attributes ........................................................................................................................ 18

Communication with the Print Dialog Manager..................................................................................... 20

Protocol Encoding................................................................................................................................... 22

5.1 Request Protocol Encoding ..................................................................................................... 22
5.2 Event Protocol Encoding ......................................................................................................... 31
5.3 Error Protocol Encoding.......................................................................................................... 32