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PCL to ASCII
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Most of PCL is plain text with the exception of CHR$(27).
The main exception to this would be raster graphics I guess
that could have all "text" or lots of control characters
depending on what the graphic is
I have written several programs (basically the same program)
to create a program from a pcl file.
It reads the file 1 char at a time, and if it is <32 or >126
then it puts "CHR$(value)" of the actual character.
(watches for CRLF too)
Usually it needs some editing but to get back a lost creation program it works pretty well usually.
The main exception to this would be raster graphics I guess
that could have all "text" or lots of control characters
depending on what the graphic is
I have written several programs (basically the same program)
to create a program from a pcl file.
It reads the file 1 char at a time, and if it is <32 or >126
then it puts "CHR$(value)" of the actual character.
(watches for CRLF too)
Usually it needs some editing but to get back a lost creation program it works pretty well usually.
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