[bug-pcl] ghostpcl - output format not the same as the print version . atten Henry/Stefan

[Stefan Kemper]

Kevin,

Attaching pcl, ps, and pdf files to emails works better if you compress
the file first so prevent the mailer from playing with cr/lf 's.

Describe in more detail what you mean by a "font/sizing problem".  


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:08, Kevin Cramp wrote:
> I have just loaded _1.40 on a server running Redhat 
> Have not upgraded the GNU ghostscript that comes with redhat
> 2.4.18-10custom (-6.52)
> succeded in 'make product' after avoiding some x11 code
>  
> tried to run it eg pcl6 dow010.pcl
>  
> and got:
> AFPL Ghostscript CVS PRE-RELEASE 8.13: **** Could not open the file  .
> Warning interpreter exited with error code -9
> Flushing to end of job
> AFPL Ghostscript CVS PRE-RELEASE 8.13: **** Could not open the file  .
>  
> We want to provide automatic emailing of reports/documents from our
> Accounting package, written in Cobol and loaded on Linux servers.
> The emailing will be handled by 'nail'
> We are looking for the conversion of Pcl output to something
> readable/printable at a PC (from Win95 ..on) eg pdf jpg
> to be attached to these emails
> 
> Stefan responded with a command
> pcl6 -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=/tmp/out%d.jpg -dNOPAUSE DOW010.pcl
> this will create out1.jpg out2.jpg ... without the prompting
>  
> Henry responded too:
> I suspect you have removed the X11 device and now the default driver
> is something which requires an output file.
> 
> pcl6 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=my.lj4 [pcl-file]
> 
> don't type '[' or ']'.  Let me know if that doesn't work and if you
> can tell
> me what was wrong with the X11 drivers, even if you don't need them,
> that would be useful.  Thanks.
>  
> I wrote
> It created a file.
> but what file type does this produce for a PC?
> I have altered the make to be DEVICE_DEVS=
>                and changed the XINCLUDE and XLIBDIRS for X11R6
>                and that the X11 directory is not in
> /usr/local/include/...but /usr/X11R6/include/...
> and removed the X11 and a bmp devices in devs.tr as these ./obj/...
> don't
> exist
> The original error was several lines of the type:
> ........X11/Xlib.h No such file or directory          Xproto Xatom
> etc...
> I've had a sleep since then, I am not sure on the X11 or X11R6???
> I received an email from Stefan giving instructions on a jpg output
> which
> runs but produces font/sizing problem
> I have sample files if that helps
> Attached are the files.
> Thanks heaps
> Kevin Cramp
> 
> 
> 
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