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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP PCL printer drivers ? Date: 11 Sep 1996 22:10:07 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 22 Sender: jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Message-ID: <517dbv$cid@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <DxK0Eo.HLE@tigger.jvnc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 To: vikas@navya.com In article <DxK0Eo.HLE@tigger.jvnc.net>, vikas@newsreader.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) writes: > Are there any PCL printer drivers available on > the net ? Any Postscript to PCL converters ? Or is Postscript the only > language for getting 'troff' and 'latex' and other such output ? A common practice is to use ghostscript (in the ports collection) as your printer driver. It takes postscript in one end, and (in your case) sends PCL out the other end. Then, for all practical purposes, you can pretend you have a postscript printer. Look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing.html for some examples. There are direct dvi->PCL drivers for TeX, but then you miss all the nifty features of dvips, like using postscript fonts, postscript graphics and the like. The latest version of groff has a PCL level 5 driver but, as you might expect, the results are only marginally useful on a deskjet (I just tried it). -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================