On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote: >> 2013/2/14 Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at 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