On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 2013/2/14 Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Everyone,
>>
>> I am currently using a vsifax program (pcltotiff) to convert pcl files
>> to tiff files on a SCO Unix box, and then I am using tiff2pdf on a
>> Centos 5.9 box to convert the file to a pdf.
>>
>> There are other commands that deal with multiple page tiff's and pdf's
>> that are part of the process, but the above basic process has worked
>> very well. The only thing I would like to enhance is a better
>> resolution of the tif file and therefore the pdf file; the problem being
>> the resolution capability of pcltotiff that comes with vsifax. I am
>> limited on the SCO box as to what I can install; it is too old to admit
>> to, and is scheduled to be upgraded to a new Centos system.
>>
>> Obviously, I can get the pcl file to the Centos system easily, do any of
>> you have suggestions of being able to convert a pcl file to pdf on the
>> Centos system.
>
> GhostPCL might work: http://www.ghostscript.com/GhostPCL.html
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=88464
>
> "I've just been tackling the same issue - PCL pre-formatted print jobs
> which I can save as files and then want to convert to PDF for email
> purposes.
>
> I seem to have found the solution with Ghostscript GhostPCL
>
> http://www.ghostscript.com/awki/GhostPCL
>
> I downloaded version ghostpcl_1.41p1.tar.bz2 (problems experienced
> with the latest version on FC5). The README was a little confusing and
> I finished up running:
>
> make clean
> make
> make install
>
> then tested with:
> pcl6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=laser.pdf laser.pcl
>
> laser.pdf opens fine with acroread but I seem to have a minor issue
> with paper size (I use A4 as my standard size & pcl6 seems to use US
> Letter as the default). Still, early days yet and I am very impressed
> with the results so far!"
>
> --
> Eero
I hadn't heard of this app... why did you choose this. For a fax
server i thought Hylafax was a good choice. I use efax but that's home
use, and from cli rather than the front end efax-gtk.
james
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