On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> James,
>
> The SCO Unix box is a real legacy system, and vsifax was the only fax
> server that we could use at the time. When we convert the SCO Unix
> system over to Centos we plan to look at Hylafax, but I have no
> experience with it at this point. However, if we can not find a pcl
> converter that gives us a decent resolution of the pdf file, we may have
> to purchase and do new install of vsifax on the new Centos machine in
> order to use vsifax's pcltotiff converter.
>
> Greg
I was just wondering that's all. I found Hylafax a pig to set up when
other folk said it was easy. I've no doubt you have better IT
knowledge than myself. efax has worked faultlessly for me but the
efax-gtk i wasn't impressed with and has about 4 releases a year and
they don't often work. I just use efax on the cli with necessary
options and that's fine - but only a non network solution.
james
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