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- From: rao@hsi.com (Ananth Rao)
- Subject: Re: ?Postscript to HP PCL converter
- Message-ID: <BxI9Jv.KF8@hsi.com>
- Keywords: Postscript,convert,HP PCL
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- Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford CT
- References: <mike.721084915@starburst.umd.edu> <4494@datum.nyo.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:57:31 GMT
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- In article <4494@datum.nyo.dec.com> frank@nyo.dec.com writes:
- >
- >Ghostscript might do the trick. It's available on gatekeeper.dec.com as
- >pub/GNU/ghostscript-2.5.2.tar.Z. Fonts are pub/GNU/ghostscript-fonts-2.5.tar.Z.
- >Try it.
- >
- > Frank
-
- And once you've built gs, don't forget to print the pcl files by sending them
- to the raw printer device (eg. cat foo /dev/lp?), otherwise the print spooler
- does some CR, LF transformations that will screw up the raster image that
- you are printing.
-
- -Ananth
-
-
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