pcl to fo converter

2003-04-22 Thread Roberto Calanca
Hi All,

I go to better explain the reason of my request:
Now we have a big application printing more than one hundred of pages with
different A4 forms defined by Italian Finance Administation for paying
taxes.
A supplier of ours prepares that forms in pcl5, we load them on each printer
(about 1000) as macros; the mix between data and forms is made calling at
the beginning of each page the number of the macro and sending the other
characters in monospace fonts as on a line printer. I already obtained PDF
files with all the content printing in a file and using some converter like
pcl2pdf, redTitan and so on.
If would be possible for me to have pcl forms in fo, i could think to make
another back step to html, designing automatically web forms avoiding me
days and days of work.

>From the first reply arrived, I understood that the main problem is due to
the fact that  PCL works with absolute positioning system of coordinates
that is quite different to convert in terms of lines and table.

Thank you very much at all

Roberto Calanca

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pcl to fo converter

2003-04-22 Thread Harry Lewis

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Re: pcl to fo converter

2003-04-22 Thread Jeremias Maerki
You mean you have done layouts that generate PCL5 files? For what
formatter? To convert them for XSL-FO you'd have to know the old format
and find a way to convert them to XSL stylesheets (not XSL-FO files but
XSLT files that generate XSL-FO). A requirement would be XML files as
input. You have to give us more information so we can help you.

In short and without knowing all the facts, I believe what you're hoping
to do is not possible. Most probably, you will have to rewrite the
layouts using XSLT and XSL-FO.

On 22.04.2003 12:24:02 Roberto Calanca wrote:
> I already have many format for pcl5 printer; do you know if exists something
> able to convert that in fo format (a sort of revers fop).


Jeremias Maerki


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2003-04-22 Thread Johan Lofgren

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pcl to fo converter

2003-04-22 Thread Roberto Calanca
Hi,

I already have many format for pcl5 printer; do you know if exists something
able to convert that in fo format (a sort of revers fop).

Thank you in adavance

Roberto Calanca


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