Maybe I didn't ask the right question :) I have users that have documents in Excel, Word etc and want to convert to pdf fo they can be published under a common format. The ways that are proposed so far are purchasing a printer driver that creates PDF. I was wondering if it was possible to avoind this and feed the printer output through FOP in some way. Hence the question about PCL to FO/PDF.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 Apr 2003 14:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCL to FO 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
