[cups.development] PCL - Raw processing
Joe Harnish
bigjoe1008 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 12:28:47 PDT 2008
Hello,
I am not sure if this is where to put send this but here it goes. I
have an application running on a proprietary Unix. I have setup CUPS
replacing it's local lp so that the printers could be easily managed.
There is a proprietary application running on the Unix system that
prints in PCL. I am trying to use cups along with cups-pdf to capture
the file as a PDF. From reading different documents around the
Internet the when cups receives the print job it encapsulates it in
PostScript. Using the cups-pdf framework I am trying to process the
file through pcl6 (a pcl to pdf ghostscript tool).
The problem that I am running into with this because the print job is
encapsulated in PS it errors out that the file is a PS file instead of
PCL.
The alternate problem (the reason for using pcl6) is that when I
convert the PS to PDF I loose all the formatting that is coming via
pcl.
How can I get the RAW data from the Unix server on my CUPS server so I
can process the native pcl through the interpreter. The worse part is
the only formatting I really need to come through is Bold, Underline
and Italics.
Other ideas on how to accomplish this would also be appreciated.
Thanks for any help
--Joe Harnish
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