Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ogicse!uidaho!snake.cs.uidaho.edu!simon From: simon@snake.cs.uidaho.edu (Mike Simon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: PostScript to HP PCL conversion Message-ID: <1991Jan16.165436.8636@groucho> Date: 16 Jan 91 16:54:36 GMT References: <348@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> Sender: @groucho Reply-To: simon@snake.cs.uidaho.edu (Mike Simon) Organization: University of Idaho CS Dept. Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: snake.cs.uidaho.edu In article , tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: |> 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 |> 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} Tor - investigate a bit before flaming. There are two or three PC products that do exactly what he wants. It's not a difficult interpreter to write, and PostScript as a programming language is no more a "programming language than HPGL (HP Graphics Language) or PCL (Printer Control Language). PostScripts FORTH origins make it suitable for nothing but device control, specificly "to put ink spots on paper". Francis - Its not available for UNIX, but a product that does exactly what you ask is available in downtown Moscow Idaho (Read "Just about anywhere") the the quite inventive name of -GoScript-. (I wonder if one can enforce copyleft against sound-alikes :) Mike Simon Systems Manager Computer Science Dept. University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 simon@ted.cs.uidaho.edu