On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:

2013/2/14 Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net:

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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

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net wrote:

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:

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2013/2/14 Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net:

...

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

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you think this will ever end up on the yum repositories?

No? Just build own rpm or install package from source.

-- Eero