[bug-pcl] Please Help: Unable to run pcl6.exe

[Stefan Kemper]

Hi,

Looks like your running windows.

If you used cygwin you can run
 make fonts

If you used msvc the you will have to copy the fonts from 
ghostpcl/urwfonts to /windows/fonts
These should be on the same drive as the pcl6.exe you are running.

Try pstotext for .ps files.
For pcl files it is possible to generate files where the index to a 
glyph has no relationship to a unicode value,  OCR is the only way to 
recover these.  Most of the text in pcl files either used unicode or a 
symbol set so it is possible to determine the character code, but not a 
trivial exersize as we do not provide a pcl->ascii or pcl->unicode 
output device.

Best regards,
Stefan Kemper
Aritfex Software Inc.

Srivani Godavarthy wrote:

>Hello GhostScript Team,
>
>     I am working on text extraction from .pcl or .ps files.
>
>     I have built the pcl6.exe from the source code privoded by the
>GhostScript team(GhostPCL 1.41). But when i tried to run the same by
>passing a .pcl file, it ended with a message "No Built-In Fonts found
>during Initialization".
>
>     I tried setting different environment variables like, PCLFONTSOURCE,
>FONTNUMBER,SYMSET etc with default values.
>But the result was the same.
>
>     Please help in getting proper pcl6.exe and also please let me know
>how to create the proper font environment for the GhostPCL.
>
>     I would be glad if you provide any other simple logic to extract text
>from .ps and .pcl files.
>
>Waiting for your reply.
>Many Thanks in advance.
>
>Thanks and Regards,
>Srivani Godavarthy.
>
>
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