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On 11/10/10 11:18 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 11/10/2010 2:56 PM, daN baueR wrote:
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<pre wrap="">usage: pcl2pdf.sh<INPUTFILENAME> <OUPUTFILENAME>
e.g. pcl2pdf.sh filename.prt filname.pdf
sh: newwood: not found.
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Many utilities accept "-" as a filename to mean "use stdin".
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at the prompt I entered this:
# newwood | pcl2pdf
and that returned an error message saying the correct syntax was
pcl2pdf file.pcl file.pdf
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Why didn't you try "-" as the filename, to see if it takes that for stdin,
as I suggested?
newwood | pcl2pdf - /tmp/output.pdf
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I tried that earlier and it just came back with usage instructions
for the command which did not include, from what I could tell, any
way to use stdin. But I'm wondering if I'm looking at the right
product. One site that has such a product is for a company called
G-Futures t/as Visual Software, and their command guide seems to
match the usage I saw. but another PDF guide online says an AXIAR
product - well it does mention the other site: visual.co.uk at the
bottom. So I guess this is all the same thing. <br>
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OK, well now I did find something for version 6.0 of pcl2pdf:<br>
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<li><font face="Verdana" size="2">Support for <b>piping in PCL
print data</b> from the stdin console added</font>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Pcl2pdf can now accept PCL
print data piped in from the stdin console. This can be
particularly useful for Unix developers wishing to script
the conversion process and avoid unnecessary temporary
files. Example console command line usages are:-</font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="1">C> type test.pcl |
PCL2PDF con test.pdf -pages (Windows)</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="1">cat test.pcl | ./PCL2PDF
con test.pdf -pages (Unix)</font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">The pseudo filename "con"
instructs Pcl2pdf to read the PCL print data from stdin
instead of a disk based file. Note that Pcl2pdf cannot
write the output PDF document data to stdout due to the
highly structured and cross referenced nature of the PDF
file format specification.</font></p>
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Bruce<br>
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