Re: Not Supported Format: PCL

[Miguel Angel Garcia <magmaxlistas gmail com>]

Hi again!

> I don't know anything about PCL/GL2 format, isn't it possible to convert
> from PCL/GL2 to PostScript? 
>
>   

Well... I don't know in this moment... but I think that this translation 
is not very difficult.

PS is a language based on text. For example: (texto) show.
PCL is "binary". All commands are delimitated by a character (The "Ec", 
that I think that is the 0x0B but I'm not quite sure now). Despite the 
PCL is binary, it is only a little more difficult to read that PS. And 
they are very similar in some cases.

It is curious, because the two languages I need to show are PS and PCL. 
But there are some good PS viewers (evince, gv) but no one of PCL.

> I suggest you to take a look at pdf and ps backends. Feel free to ask us
> any question you have, here in this list or on IRC (irc.gnome.org
> #evince)
>   
I already did it. But I have a very big problem: I can't understand the 
architecture of evince. �Can you give me a little "how to begin"?

I have began to think that it is easier for me to build a PCL2DVI 
converter, and to use a DVI viewer. Maybe this can be a first step for 
the PCL plugin for Evince. �What's your opinion?

Thank you again

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