mkpcl & color logos

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 10:21P Tue May 13 2008, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> 
> Scott Walker propounded (on Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:36:25PM -0400):
> | Jim,
> | 
> | I start with a .bmp file with customer logo with color.  I use mkpcl to
> | convert file to pcl.  Filepro creates the form and sends down the line
> | to Anziowin.  Anziowin grabs the file, converts to pdf, fires up outlook
> | and inserts email address and attachment file name.
> | 
> | I click on the pdf (from within outlook) to see it and it looks great,
> | just no color.
> | 
> | Am I loosing the color info when I convert the original .bmp to .pcl?
> | 
> | I guess my customers are at the point where they want to see their logo
> | on the emailed form in color.  
> 
> I believe Jim is still developing a color-aware version of mkpcl.
> 
> Until he is done, follow Bill Campbell's suggestion and use ImageMagick.


It is a work in progress now. Actually, I've had a PCL5 color version
working for a time, although not released. I still need to do the 
PCL3 version. I don't know if any (or all) of the pcl2pdf programs
know PCL5 color or PCL3 color. I assume that most of these things are
somehow licensed from Artifex.

You can't make a universal PCL file that will print color on a color
printer and BW on a BW printer. A BW PCL will print just fine on a
color printer, but a color PCL file will probably generate pages of
garbage on a BW printer.

Each of the pcl2pdf programs probably has a different view of things
as well. It IS the long way around the block to get a color image into
a PDF from a quality standpoint.


Jim 
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