Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.szaf.org!news.visyn.net!visyn.net!not-for-mail From: "Mark T. B. Carroll" Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Conversion to PCL question... Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:36:22 -0400 Organization: none Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87y63t35op.fsf@ixod.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: hoshi.visyn.net snYv/nP0lXfn6QX5sM+e5YHaWKaZtYKL90ZO+shAxcg= X-Complaints-To: abuse@open-news-network.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 23:36:21 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: g6uqJKCbyU8201tqisVzj1u+yyfho1bAPiQ5H5WvRBo= Cancel-Lock: sha1:56giZfPlhp4cYDz8/Srup+502mw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:98 "JJ" writes: > We have a company logo. I can get it in jpg or bmp format. I might even be > able to get it in PDF format... > > But what we need to do is convert it to PCL. Then I have to store that PCL > somewhere so that later, it can be "sent" to the printer on the fly. > Basically, we'd like to print the logo from our internal system vs. buying > pre-printed letterhead paper. > > We cannot load "macros" to the printers themselves. We have dozens of > printers that might be doing this printing. They are all PCL capable > printers. The Common UNIX Printing System can via PostScript convert PDF to PCL. Pick a PCL printer driver and print a PDF to a file using the driver. That may not be the best way, but it'll probably work. There's also a PDF-to-PostScript utility based on Poppler. Then Ghostscript can convert PostScript to PCL. Maybe those are pretty much the tools CUPS uses under the hood, I don't know. Basically, certainly if you go via PostScript, you should find that there are plenty of free tools available. Mark