Concatenating PCL files

[bbonn]

Hi,

I was looking for some help concatenating some PCl files. PCL 5 to be exact, coming out of a software package we are evaluaitng. So, any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Bernie

 

[jlasman]

What is it you are trying to do?

You can obviously put several PCL files into a single file, but that wouldn't be any different than printing them individually.

If you want to take several files and print them as though they were one print job, you would have to edit each of them to get rid of some init and termination codes.

You might be able to filter the data if the driver is consistent.

Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[bbonn]

We need to drive some large production printers. So, merging these smaller output files is desirable. Thanks for the info,

bernie

 

[pagetech]

The simplest way is with "copy /b 1.pcl+2.pcl+3.pcl all.pcl". If you need to peak inside each PCL file to determine the printstream order, then you'll need PCLTool SDK - Option V. You would need to use a PCLXForm .tpt script program to set-up the rules to determine which PCL file is to be placed in which order, etc.

PCLXForm also an overlay, insert and extract images, pages or text during the PCL streamediting process. And, it can convert the result into PDF, TIF, PNG, etc.