Laserjet emulation possible on PS?

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2 total messages Started by John Nicoll Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:44

#3884

Author: John Nicoll
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:44

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Hello all
	I'm interested if anyone has written an
HP-LaserJet
emulation package for PostScript interpreters
(and in general, in other printer emulations) .
I realise that this might be a FAQ, but I
haven't seen such a thing on this newsgroup.

I'd be very grateful for any information
email replies preferred - I'll summarise if necessary.

	best wishes
		john Nicoll

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Re: Laserjet emulation possible on PS?

#3901

Author: Chris Lewis
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:22

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In article <1992Sep29.174449.14996@ohm.york.ac.uk> jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll) writes:
>Hello all
>	I'm interested if anyone has written an
>HP-LaserJet
>emulation package for PostScript interpreters
>(and in general, in other printer emulations) .
>I realise that this might be a FAQ, but I
>haven't seen such a thing on this newsgroup.

There are two different packages.  One is called lj2ps, t'other
is hp2pbm.  The former does a relatively limited emulation of
PCL (ie: not including fonts downloads, graphics) to spit out
Postscript using PostScript's fonts (which means that there are
often problems with font metrics).

Hp2pbm (PL3) can convert all of PCL4 (including fonts, macros,
rasters etc.) into Poskanzer's Portable Bitmap format, and
pbm2ps (part of hp2pbm PL3) can then generate a PostScript
raster that is theoretically bit-for-bit identical with what
would have been printed on a HP Laserjet.

lj2ps was in comp.sources.unix I think.  hp2pbm in comp.sources.misc.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
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Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca

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