D/ling now. Looks like just what I need. Sourceforge is great -----Original Message----- From: Pierfrancesco Bionda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 Apr 2003 15:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R: PCL to FO
Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator Pierfrancesco Bionda > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Matthew Lancashire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: marted� 22 aprile 2003 14.56 > A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oggetto: RE: PCL to FO > > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
