[bug-pcl] GhostPCL output corrupted

[Stefan Kemper]

Sorry Daniel,

The MSVC build shipped without pdfwrite and it isn't trivial to put it 
back in.  Your choices are to go back to the 1.40 version, use cygwin to 
build, or wait till we release with a fixed msvc build for pdfwrite.

Best Regards,
Stefan


Daniel Gapinski wrote:

>That is a good idea Stefan, but it doesn't work for me. I compiled for
>Win32 (for better or worse) and specifying a fully-qualified path does
>not work. Perhaps there is more to it for compiling? I did add a
>pdfwrite device entry into the pcl6_msvc.mak file in addition to the
>instructions for compiling. Is there any other crumb that you might be
>able to lend to someone currently trapped in Wintel World (trapped at
>least, at work :-)?
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stefan Kemper [mailto:stefan.kemper at artifex.com] 
>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 5:03 PM
>To: Daniel Gapinski
>Subject: Re: [bug-pcl] GhostPCL output corrupted
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>Hi Daniel,
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>This seems to work for me try:
>~/projects/fresh/main/obj/pcl6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 
>-sOutputFile=/Users/stefan/fooANRE02.pdf ANRE02.pcl
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>I always fully qualify the output file name as I don't trust the drop it
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>here mechanism.
>
>./Stefan
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>Daniel Gapinski wrote:
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>>I hate to sound like, or worse, actually be a dumbass, but I haven't 
>>used Ghostscript before. Here is the original PCL and the output. I 
>>will learn how. Thanks for taking a peek!
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bug-pcl-bounces at ghostscript.com 
>>[mailto:bug-pcl-bounces at ghostscript.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Kemper
>>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:08 AM
>>To: Daniel Gapinski
>>Cc: bug-pcl at ghostscript.com
>>Subject: Re: [bug-pcl] GhostPCL output corrupted
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>>
>>Hi Daniel,
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>>Can ghostscript read the file?
>>Go ahead and send the pcl file.
>>
>>Stefan
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>>Daniel Gapinski wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have GhostPCL compiled and producing PDF output, but when I try to
>>>convert to PDF, it always turns out badly. Acrobat Reader says
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>>>could not open 'test.pdf' because it is either not a supported file
>>>type, or because the file has been corrupted"... You get the idea.
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>>>happens if I use v1.38p1 or 1.41.
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>>>I use the command line as such: pcl6 -sDevice=pdfwrite
>>>-sOutputFile=test.pdf -dNOPAUSE file.pcl
>>>
>>>Pretty straightforward I hope. I don't know what to do about this. Any
>>>thoughts? Would anyone like to take a look at the PCL file I'm trying 
>>>to convert?
>>>
>>>Thanks a lot,
>>>Dan Gapinski
>>>Quasar Systems
>>>
>>>P.S. This 49KB PCL file converts to a whopping 3.9MB PDF. I can use
>>>NTFS compression to reduce its size to 2.28MB, but that's as small as
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>>>can get it. Just thought you might like to know.
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