Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!fuug!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: PostScript to HP PCL conversion Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 04:55:52 GMT References: <348@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 25 In-reply-to: fmonaldo@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU's message of 15 Jan 91 14:37:03 GMT In article <348@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> fmonaldo@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Monaldo Francis M. S1R x8648) writes: it would be convenient to have a program that converted a PostScript file to the HP Printer Control Language (PCL). We already have a program that converts HPGL plotter commands to PCL. Perhaps a similar program is available for PostScript to PCL conversion. Sure it would be convenient... \begin{flame} Do you know PostScript at all? It is a programming language. It's side effect is to put ink spots on paper, or turn on pixels on a display. PS printers interpret PS programs. The only way to "convert" PS to something is to interpret it. So what you need is much more complex than a HPGL to PCL converter. \end{flame} It would be possible to write a PS interpreter than outputs the generated bitmap in PCL form, but I don't know if such a beast has been written. You could start with GNU GhostScript. -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland