Creating PDF documents

[J. Ryan Kelley]

Jose,

I was looking at my code, and to my surprise imagemagick doesn't actually
convert the pcl file.  We first have to convert the .pcl to a tiff via a
vsifax utility called pcltotif.

if you have vsifax, it's still very simple.


system noredraw "/home/vsifax/lbin/pcltotif -o /ptmp/i"{3 {".tif" <
"/ptmp/"{ 3 {"i > /dev/null 2>&1"


that's the code to convert the pcl file /ptmp/(field3)i into the tif file
/ptmp/i(field3).tif
then the conversion from tif to pdf is pretty easy


system noredraw "convert /ptmp/i(field3).tif /ptmp/your.pdf"


Sorry for the misinformation in my previous post....this process seems kind
of silly looking back, i'd imagine that there is an easier way to go from
.pcl to .pdf, but we don't use this process very often, so for us this
works.


-Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Lerebours, Jose [mailto:Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:49 AM
To: J. Ryan Kelley
Subject: RE: Creating PDF documents


Ryan,

Thanks for the info.  Can you forward sample syntax for
creating a PDF out of a filePro report?  Report has PCL
code within ...

I cannot find a reference within attached link on how to
create PDF documents.

Thanks;


Jose Lerebours

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Ryan Kelley [mailto:ryan.kelley at trinitytransport.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:05 AM
> To: Lerebours, Jose; Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Creating PDF documents
>
>
> We use imagemagick to covert the .pcl filepro output files into pdfs.
> This software package is useful for converting all kinds of different
> formats as well.
>
> We typically only use the .pdf, .pcl, and .tif capabilities though.
>
> (good news, it's free!)
>
> http://imagemagick.sourceforge.net/www/convert.html
>
> -Ryan
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
> Lerebours,
> Jose
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:56 AM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Creating PDF documents
>
>
> What are you guys/gals using to create PDF
> documents from filePro applications?
>
> SCO Unix based ... !!!
>
>
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