[bug-pcl] GhostPCL output corrupted

[Michael St. Laurent]

What version of Acrobat Reader are you using?

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
> 
> -----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
> 
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> This seems to work for me try:
> ~/projects/fresh/main/obj/pcl6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile=/Users/stefan/fooANRE02.pdf ANRE02.pcl
> 
> I always fully qualify the output file name as I don't trust the drop
> it 
> 
> here mechanism.
> 
> ./Stefan
> 
> 
> Daniel Gapinski wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Daniel,
>> 
>> Can ghostscript read the file?
>> Go ahead and send the pcl file.
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>> Daniel Gapinski wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>>> "Acrobat 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> This 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> happens if I use v1.38p1 or 1.41.
>>> 
>>> 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 I 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> can get it. Just thought you might like to know.
>>> 
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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation