Postscript in define output

[John Esak]

Jim is right.. Be scared off... But if you must absolutely do pcl to
postcript or the other way, I believe there are pcl2post and post2pcl
utilities on various flavors of Unix. Not sure about Linux. The pcl2post
filters that I have seen do little more than convert the parts of the table
that can be translated into basic ascii with surrounding postscript
envelope.  I don't think you would get anything more elaborate than the
simplest PCL converted. Odd, but you would probably have more luck with this
in the Windows world than  vice versa.  It's funny, but HP and whoever owns
Postscript (is it Adobe these days?) have never played well together. They
have economic reasons in their mind for keeping it this way I guess. 

And, if you're not averse to adding in a Windows PC to your network, you can
use Print Wizard www.anzio.com to convert the filePro output scheme to a pdf
document, if that is your end goal.

John Esak



> -----Original Message-----
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m] On Behalf Of Jim Asman
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:41 AM
> To: dennisr at fashioncarpets.com
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> Subject: CC: Re: Postscript in define output
> 
> 
> 
> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 09:36P Fri Jun 12 2009, Dennis Runolfson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > We have several forms that we create using pcl code in the 
> output form. 
> > Can this also be done using postscript programming?  If so 
> how do you tell
> > the printer to act on the instructions rather then print them?
> 
> You won't likely get very far with it. Postscript is NOT interpreted
> like PCL and has a structured output. It is not an ad hoc collection
> of escape codes generated line by line as created by a filepro output
> format.
> 
> PCL5 fits into the filepro scheme very well. PCL6 though is 
> very structured
> a requires "assembly" to be used for printing. Ditto for PS.
> > 
> > I have not seen this as a subject in the filepro list so I 
> suspect it is
> > not commonly used.  Any comments on how to accomplish this 
> as well a pros
> > and cons would be appreciated.
> > 
> > We are running the Ubuntu version of Linux.
> > 
> 
> What I would suggest is that you print to a file some simple text
> through a windows postscript driver and have a look the resulting
> file. That should scare you off. ;-)
> 
> 
> Jim 
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