[cups.general] compining Postscript and PCL on the same page

[Michael Sweet]

In general you can't mix PDLs on the same page. Your best option is to convert PS to PCL and then add your custom PCL stuff to that...

(look at the rastertohp.c or rastertopclx.c sources for inspiration...)

On Jan 29, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to combine the output of CUPS' texttops filter (because it can
> print UTF-8 text to Postscript) and some small pieces of PCL and text
> (because it produces some OCR-B string of the text) both on the same
> page, printed at the end via CUPS.
> 
> Is this possible to combine the foo.ps and foo.pcl files somehow into
> one print job on the same page?
> 
> Thanks for any helping idea or pointer to information
> 
>     Matthias
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair