Making Laser Printer Overlays

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:39:58AM -0500, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>      Thanks, Bob! The PrintWiz approach sounds interesting, but this
> customer doesn't want any reprogramming or switching to any new software.
> They just want me to take the dozen or so existing letterhead and invoice
> overlays that show their old phone numbers and convert them to new overlays
> with their new phone numbers.  Then they want me to copy the new overlays to
> files onto their Unix server with the same names as the old files, so that
> their existing software applications print them just like they do now.  

In that case, I assume you have a bunch of .pcl files?  That is, files
with the PCL code in them to image the letterhead graphics in question,
which are called in by printcodes?

If so, then when you likelt need to do is find a graphic editor that
can *read* PCL graphics files as well as writing them.

I'm not sure what can do that, honestly.  And I don't remember whether
ImageMagick (or GraphicsMagick) can convert *out* of PCL into something
you can edit -- I think I remember that it can't.

Converting back is easy, as others have noted; mkpcl is great stuff.

Cheers,
-- jra
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