[plug] Converting Laserjet output to Postscript

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for :

http://www.faqs.org/ftp/usenet/comp.sources.misc/packages/hp2pbm/


Indy.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:15:36PM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:29:57PM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:59:20PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > I think that CUPS uses something like 'any2ps' or 'foo2ps' to do 
> > > something like that, but I'm not sure it handles PCL.
> > 
> > Nor am I! :-)
> 
> There's nothing in the base CUPS that seems to fit.
> 
> > > I assume you've got some app that generates PCL and you want to make a 
> > > PDF or EPS of it's output?
> > 
> > Yep. To email/fax instead of sending by snail.
> > 
> > I'd rather not rasterise to TIFF and then convert the bitmap to
> > PostScript.
> > 
> > > If it's a 'doze app, you can usually just use a different printer driver 
> > 
> > It's Linux. FormTrap's (shhhh!) lack of PostScript support appears
> > to be a result of corner-coding; like painting into a corner... :-)
> > 
> > I've found lj2ps but is appears to be unmaintained since about 1990.  :-(
> > http://www-wisconsin.cern.ch/~lishka/progs/lj2ps/lj2ps_intro.html
> > 
> > I'll give that a whirl. Not much to lose except hours(!). What else
> > have I got to do at night except waste my time sleeping.
> > 
> > OTOH: there's www.pcl2pdf.com that appears stupidly-expensive.
> 
> And windows-only.
> 
> I'm looking for sources to hp2pbm by Chris Lewis. It dates back to
> ca 1995; which is what I remember being a "workable" alternative.
> Unfortunately, my tape archives ar unreadable - the DAT died; so I
> can't check if it's in my comp.sources.unix or
> comp.sources.postscript archives. Haven't been able to find an
> online repository with it either.
> 
> Any ideas on the location of hp2pbm sources?
> 
> Also downloading GhostPCL to see if that'll do the trick.
> 
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