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

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jay Ashworth propounded (on Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:33:23PM -0500):
| ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
| 
| > 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.
| 
| Is "ghostpdl" a typo?
| 
| I'm familiar with "ghostpcl", which I think/thought came from the ghostscript
| team or someone associated with them, but had never heard of "ghostpdl".

Not a typo, Jay, and you should want it in your armentarium.

As for my remark that I didn't know the origin of the name, I just came
upon http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/WhatIsGS.htm, where I have now
learned that GhostPDL stands for Ghost Page Description Languages.

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JP