Converting PCL to XSL-FO doesn't make a lot of sense (and is impossible to do well). Same for PDF-->XSL-FO and PostScript-->XSL-FO. If you wanted PCL-->SVG, PDF-->SVG, PostScript-->SVG, then it would make more sense because the formats are more alike in what they try to accomplish. PCL, for example, does not care about blocks and columns and tables (I think). It knows about painting "Hello World" at coordinate (x,y) on a page. A PCL file converted to XSL-FO would have a lot of absolutely positioned block-containers to get the positioning of text right, for example. It will be a mess. :-)
If you like compiling C programs you should look at GhostScript's sister project GhostPCL (http://www.artifex.com/downloads/). I think it can convert PCL to PDF but I don't know how well. If you have a document flow that involves PCL I'd see if you can hook in before PCL is generated. On 22.04.2003 11:23:03 Matthew Lancashire wrote: > Is there a way of converting PCL printer output to FO and hence be able to > create a PDF doc. > If so what is it. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
