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From: "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:20:09 -0400
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"JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> writes:
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> It’s actually easier to do it in PostScript from the start (not
> yourApp->PCL->PS->PDF or yourApp->PS->PCL->PDF, but yourApp->PS->PDF),
> and there are already-made tools to help.

yourApp->XeTeX->PDF may be easier still, it doesn't sound like we're
talking about hundreds of pages per second. (-:

Good luck with whatever you choose, though. I haven't used PCL directly
much at all myself so I'm not much help with your hoped-for path.

Mark