Simple examples

This section shows some simple examples of using pcl2afp. For more detailed examples, see More complex examples.

• To submit the sample PCL file sample.pcl supplied with InfoPrint Manager for AIX to the logical printer named Pserv-lp, enter:

  enq -Pserv-lp -odatat=pcl /usr/lpp/psf/pcl2afp/sample.pcl

• To transform the PCL file myfile into an AFP data stream, and then submit it to the InfoPrint logical printer called Pserv-lp, enter:

  pdpr -p Pserv-lp -x "default-printer-resolution=300" myfile

  or

  pcl2afp -r300 myfile | pdpr -p Pserv-lp

  Note: You need to specify a resolution of 300 pels (default-printer-resolution=300) because the Pserv-lp printer routes jobs to a 4019 printer device. The 4019 is a 300-pel resolution printer and the default resolution for the pcl2afp command is 240 pels.
• To transform the PCL file myfile into an AFP data stream, with an image that is 8 inches high and 5 inches wide, and write the result to a file called myfile.afp, enter:

  pcl2afp -l 8i -w 5i -o myfile.afp myfile

  or

  pcl2afp -l 8i -w 5i myfile > myfile.afp

• To transform the PCL myfile file into an AFP data stream in 300-pel resolution, as an IO1_MMR image, and send the result to the printer with the pdpr command, enter:

  pcl2afp -aIO1_MMR -r300 myfile | pdpr -X myafp.X -p lserv-lp

  or

  pdpr -X mypcl.X myfile -p Pserv-lp

  where the attributes file named myafp.X contains these settings:

  document-format=modca-p
  printer-name-requested=robin-lp

  and the attributes file named mypcl.X contains these settings:

  document-format=pcl
  printer-name-requested=robin-lp
  image-output-format=io1_mmr
  default-printer-resolution=300

• Assume that the PCL file myfile uses the BarKode.pcl font that is a PCL resource on a system named molly. Also assume that the pcl2afpd daemon is running on robin, but you are logged in to the AIX or Linux system named molly. To transform myfile into an AFP data stream, but not print it:

  pcl2afp -S robin -c -o myfile.afp BarKode.pcl myfile

  The -c flag concatenates the two input files, with the file BarKode.pcl first, so that the two files are processed together. In this way, myfile uses BarKode.pcl as an inline resource.

• Because the pcl2afp transform does not accept HP-GL/2 directly as input, you can use the -c flag to concatenate some sample PCL files that allow the HP-GL/2 file to be processed. To transform the HP-GL/2 file myfile.gl into a MO:DCA-P data stream file myfile.afp, enter:

  For AIX or Linux

  pcl2afp -o myfile.afp -c /usr/lpp/psf/pcl2afp/gl_before.pcl
    myfile.gl /usr/lpp/psf/pcl2afp/gl_after.pcl

  For Windows

  pcl2afp -o myfile.afp -c install_path\pcl2afp\gl_before.pcl
    myfile.gl install_path\pcl2afp\gl_after.pcl

  The -c flag concatenates the three input files, making myfile.gl appear as a PCL file that includes HP-GL/2 commands.

• To transform a PCL file into an IS/3 compliant afp output:

  pcl2afp -is 3 -o output.afp input.pcl

• To create an FS45 overlay from a one-page PCL file named my.pcl and name the FS45 overlay my.ovly, enter:

  pcl2afp -a fs45.ovly -p1 my.pcl -o my.ovly

• To create an FS45 page segment from an existing PCL file named logo.pcl and name the FS45 page segment logofs45.pseg, enter:

  pcl2afp -a fs45.pseg logo.pcl -o logofs45.pseg