RE: PCL -> PS -> PDF on CUPS

Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi Scott,
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> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
>> Do any of you have some experience of creating a printer in cups that
>> does this?  I have just set up a cups PDF printer so that my windows
>> desktops can print to cups and create PDF' on a samba share which is
>> very cool.

I mentioned this as a case of "I've gotten this far; now I want to go
further" scenario.  But thanks for the heads up  I'll keep this in mind
for my laptops.

> I keep it much simpler -- printing to PDF using "PDF Creator", then
> if I need to print to the printer, I print page(s) as required from
> the PDF that was created. =20
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> PDF Creator at sourceforge:
>   http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/
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> Kind Regards
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> AndrewM

This is a centralised UNIX based accounting package that expects raw
print queues and expects to be able to send pcl commands directly to the
printer.  Before it sends a print job to a pcl4 compatible printer it
sends a pcl overlay document to create letter headed pages which then
receive the document on top of that.  The application sends this part
using pcl commands directly.  It only understands PCL. =20

On the same box I have CUPS running as the print subsystem.  With raw
print queues to handle this one particular application.  But for print
processing it really only understands PostScript (or at least that's how
I understand it ;-)  ) So I need to get from pcl commands with overlay
-> postscript -> PDF file ........ =20




Regards Geoff Scott