RE: PCL -> PS -> PDF on CUPS

Sorry fat fingers,

Cheers

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 20:38 +1000, J. Mark Campbell wrote:
> Hi All
> Chris posted this under the wrong thread, but the info looks good. May
> be the answer Geoffrey is looking for.
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> Hi,
> 
> Try this
> 
> http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/b8ec57204f60dfcb4a2568c60014ed0f/6733
> 15301751997aca256f6c001a2941?OpenDocument
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
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> Regards,
>  
> 
> Cambo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Geoffrey Scott
> Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2006 4:52 PM
> To: Andrew McGlashan; Melbourne Linux Users Group
> Subject: RE: [MLUG] PCL -> PS -> PDF on CUPS
> 
> 
> Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > PDF Creator at sourceforge:
> >   http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/
> > 
> > Kind Regards
> > 
> > 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.  
> 
> 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 ........
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards Geoff Scott
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