pcl6 program? Filepro-list Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

tob at b-e-s-t.com propounded (on Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 03:30:05PM -0500):
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| In message 3 what does he mean by 'pcl6 program'?

| From: filepro-list-request at lists.celestial.com
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| Message: 3
| Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:27:09 -0500
| From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
| Subject: PCL 3/5 printer died; did I slit my throat?
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| I was in the midst of printing 1099 forms from my OSR6 server, using
| filePro output involving some subtle PCL3 coding (courtesy of Jim
| Asman) to make the printed text properly nestle in the boxes of the
| IRS-designed forms one obtains from any stationer.
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| Of a sudden, my HP OfficeJet quit, popped, turned off, dropped dead.
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| I surprised myself with what then ensued. I used the 'pcl6' program to
| convert filePro's PCL3 output to a PDF file. I dispatched that PDF to
| my wife's Brother MFC J625DW (Windoze only) printer. All the text was
| placed in the boxes of the 1099 forms just as precisely as it used to be
| on the OfficeJet.

Please edit what you include in your reply, you make no one happy by
preserving so much extraneous stuff in your posting.

And why write "he", when the actual name of "he" (me, in this case)
is clearly available?

>From a text file which may include HP PCL3|5 escape sequences,
pcl6 generates a PDF file . You get pcl6 by compiling ghostpdl (or
downloading OSR5|OSR6 binaries from ftp.jpr.com).  The names "ghostpdl"
and "pcl6" make no sense to me at all, I don't know where they came
from, they are what they are.

-- 
JP