[plug] Converting Laserjet output to Postscript

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Aug 11 15:18:31 WST 2003


> I'm sure this is correct for the AdobePS driver. But if, for
> convenience, someone uses a driver that they already have (e.g. an HP
> PostScript driver), the .prn file might contain some PCL at its
> beginning and at its end (which needs to be trimmed off). OTOH this
> might merely have been a hallucination I had. As you mentioned,
> hpgltops probably works just fine.

*ick*

I've definitely seen this. I suspect it's for older PCL printers that 
need to be told "Warning - PostScript incoming!".

Using AdobePS or most of the newer HP PostScript drivers will avoid this.

Craig Ringer




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