[PLUG] rendering circa 1995 WP and HP Laserjet Series II files

Piet van Weel pmvw at wbcable.net
Tue Apr 12 14:11:01 UTC 2005


Greetings...

Hmmm... It looks like this: http://www.artifex.com/downloads/ (ghostpcl)
Does what you're looking for. Have you tried it?

Piet


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:44 AM
To: General Linux discussion and assistance
Subject: Re: [PLUG] rendering circa 1995 WP and HP Laserjet Series II files

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Karlock <Jkarlock at earthlink.net> writes:

Russell> [...] Is there an HPLJ emulator, say, that would render
Russell> Postscript of even a series of PNGs?  In other words, an
Russell> inverse Ghostscript.  I googled a little,
Russell> unsuccessfully. [...]

Jim> I'm still using WP6.0b on my laptop. It is dated 02/14/94 so it
Jim> would probably work. I also have WP8,9 and 10.

I followed a suggestion of Aaron's and used SwiftView (trial edition)
to convert the PCL to multipage TIFF, then tiff2pdf to create a PDF.

Thanks for the offer, though.


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