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- From: furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: PCL to PostScript translator
- Message-ID: <FURNISH.93Jan7002216@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 06:22:16 GMT
- References: <86239@ut-emx.uucp>
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Organization: Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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- In-reply-to: xdaa374@ut-emx.uucp's message of 6 Jan 93 17:15:02 GMT
-
- In article <86239@ut-emx.uucp> xdaa374@ut-emx.uucp (William T. Douglass) writes:
-
- According to the Response Center, LaserROM will only send output in
- PCL format (LaserJet et. al.) This means we cannot print formatted
- output from the LaserROM to our printers. We do not have a
- LaserJet available, and the LaserWriters are dedicated to
- PostScript and thus cannot be set to PCL mode.
-
- We are looking for a filter that will convert PCL formating to
- postscript, or even to "dumb" printer formatting (overstrike and
- backspace). If anyone knows of a solution, I would be most
- grateful to hear from you.
-
- Thx.
- --
- Bill Douglass, TCADA
-
- I have another solution. How about we all rant and rave and scream at
- HP for making this ABSOLUTELY IDIOTIC functionality in the first
- place. grrrrrrrrr I can't even begin to tell how sick I am of this
- same problem.
-
- At my site, we do have a printer which can do PCL, but it is not
- possible to configure lp to automatically kick it into PCL mode (don't
- ask--you don't really want to know...). If I could only get LaseROM
- or LROM to write the PCL formatted stuff to a _file_ instead of only
- to a printer, I could do what I need.
-
- How this obviously desirable functionality came to be omitted, one can
- only guess.
-
- Geoff Furnish
- furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu
-
-