using pcl2pdf macro in AIX

[Bruce Easton]

On 11/10/10 11:18 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 2:56 PM, daN baueR wrote:
> [...]
>>>> usage: pcl2pdf.sh<INPUTFILENAME>     <OUPUTFILENAME>
>>>>     e.g. pcl2pdf.sh filename.prt filname.pdf
>>>> sh: newwood:  not found.
>>> Many utilities accept "-" as a filename to mean "use stdin".
>> at the prompt I entered this:
>>
>> # newwood | pcl2pdf
>> and that returned an error message saying the correct syntax was
>>    pcl2pdf file.pcl file.pdf
> Why didn't you try "-" as the filename, to see if it takes that for stdin,
> as I suggested?
>
> newwood | pcl2pdf - /tmp/output.pdf
>
I tried that earlier and it just came back with usage instructions for 
the command which did not include, from what I could tell, any way to 
use stdin.  But I'm wondering if I'm looking at the right product.  One 
site that has such a product is for a company called G-Futures t/as 
Visual Software, and their command guide seems to match the usage I 
saw.  but another PDF guide online says an AXIAR product - well it does 
mention the other site: visual.co.uk at the bottom.  So I guess this is 
all the same thing.

OK, well now I did find something for version 6.0 of pcl2pdf:

    * Support for *piping in PCL print data* from the stdin console added

          Pcl2pdf can now accept PCL print data piped in from the stdin
          console. This can be particularly useful for Unix developers
          wishing to script the conversion process and avoid unnecessary
          temporary files. Example console command line usages are:-

              C> type test.pcl | PCL2PDF con test.pdf
              -pages                    (Windows)

              cat test.pcl | ./PCL2PDF con test.pdf
              -pages                    (Unix)

          The pseudo filename "con" instructs Pcl2pdf to read the PCL
          print data from stdin instead of a disk based file. Note that
          Pcl2pdf cannot write the output PDF document data to stdout
          due to the highly structured and cross referenced nature of
          the PDF file format specification.

Bruce



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