[cups] printing files of type PJL encapsulated PostScript document text

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Fri Nov 11 12:47:20 PST 2016


> Am 11.11.2016 um 14:43 schrieb Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>:
> 
> El día Friday, November 11, 2016 a las 07:02:21AM -0500, Michael Sweet escribió:
> 
>> Matthias,
>> 
>> Unless this file was made specifically for your printer, it is entirely possible that it contains commands (PCL or PJL) that the printer does not support since both PCL and PJL don't follow a single lineage or specification.
>> 
>> My guess is that your printer may support PCL but not PJL, and as soon as it sees the PJL is treats the file as plain text.
>> 
> 
> Michael,
> 
> The PCL file contains some graphics (a logo of the Library in question and
> some marks for letter folding machines). They are printed, only all text
> is missing from the printers where it does not print. This let me think in
> some missing fonts, but I do not see font names in the PCL file
> 
> I even removed the PJL header from the file with a hex editor, same
> result.
> 
> I'm a bit clueless here.
> 
> 	matthias
> 
> 
> -- 

I just wrote (based on others from me) a filter that converts PCL / PCLXL / RTF and its dialects
to PostScript or PDF, based on the pcl6 utility from Artifex Ghostpdl package.

Publication on source forge.net within the next view days.

Helge




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