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The eqpcl utility converts PCL documents to PDF or Postscript.
It implements a commonly used subset of PCL functionality.
The eqpcl utility internally translates the PCL command sequences
and text into Postscript and uses GNU Ghostscript to create the
PDF output.
usage: eqpcl [options] [pcl-file ...]
output options:
-p create PDF output (-pp for PDF/A)
-s create postscript output
-a analyze pcl data (-aa more verbose)
-g create postscript and pass to ghostscript
options:
-c cfg specify config file (default is eqpcl.cfg, ~/.eqpcl)
-o out specify output file (default is stdout)
-m file specify PDF marks input file
-G opt additional ghostscript options
-C opt define config option ([section:]item=value)
-V output version and exit
Any number of PCL command files may be specified on the command line,
which are then combined to a single document, each file separated by
a PCL reset. If no file name is present, the input is read from stdin.
This allows to use eqpcl in a pipe.
The options are:
- -help
- The -help option displays a brief help text.
- -p
- The option -p is is used to create a PDF file as a result.
In this case, eqpcl internally creates an intermediate Postscript
result which is passed to Ghostscript to create the PDF.
The option -pp is is used to create a PDF/A compliant PDF file.
- -s
- Create Postscript output.
- -g
- The option -g translates the PCL input and passes it to Ghostscript.
This option does NOT create a PDF file but allows to use eqpcl as a
simple frontend to Ghostscript (for example, to print the resulting
document).
- -a
- Decode PCL command stream.
If specified twice (-aa) the output is more verbose.
- -c eqpcl.cfg
- The option -c is used to specify a config file that defines some configuration and PCL defaults.
- -o file
- The option -o is used to specify the name of an output file.
If not present, the output is written to stdout so that eqpcl may
be used in a pipe.
- -m file
- The option -m specifies a text file containing PDFmarks.
The file content is added verbatim to the postscript output.
This allows to specify PDF meta information (such as title, author or bookmarks). This file must comply with the PDFmarks syntax.
- -G opt
- The -G option allows to specify additional Ghostscript options.
- -C opt
- The -C option allows to specify or override PCL configuration options.
For example, -C paper.source=1 or -C tray1:onpage=even.
The option -c is used to specify a config file that defines
some configuration and PCL defaults.
If no configuration file is specified (-c option):
- First, the eqpcl utility will look for a file named eqpcl.cfg
in the current directory.
- On HP-UX and Linux, the eqpcl utility will then look for a file
named .eqpcl in the home directory (~/.eqpcl).
- Finally, eqpcl will look for a file named eqpcl.cfg in the etc
subdirectory of your Eloquence installation.
eqpcl -c eqpcl.cfg -p -o sample.pdf sample.pcl
This creates a PDF document (sample.pdf) from PCL file sample.pcl.
The config file eqpcl.cfg is used.
cat sample.pcl | eqpcl -c eqpcl.cfg -p > sample.pdf
The PCL data is read from stdin and converted to PDF on stdout.
eqpcl -a sample.pcl
Analyze the file sample.pcl. This decodes the PCL commands and
text. Outputs the results to stdout.
eqpcl.cfg config file and
PCL to PDF conversion (eqpcl documentation).
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